Author(s): Bill Tyrer

Biography

This is an autobiographical account of Bill Tyrer's first thirty years of life, culminating in his work aboard ships of the Cunard line. Bill encountered many of the rich and famous, including Her Royal Highness Princess Saroya, Empress of Iran, Winston Churchill Anthony Eden and Andre Gromyko, together with Hollywood film stars and Entertainers like Liberace Alan Ladd and Richard Burton, until the demise of the great shipping lines with the advent of air travel. Interspersed with rich humour, this is an intriguing and interesting account of the rise and fall of a bygone era. Merseyside to Manhattan will entertain you for many hours.