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<p><b><i>'Mauretania was a ship with a fighting heart. First and foremost, she was not just a great and successful liner. She was the Mauretania.'</i> - Franklin D. Roosevelt.</b></p> <p>When the <i>Mauretania</i> took to the North Atlantic for the first time in November 1907, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world, serving with her sister ship, the <i>Lusitania</i>, for nearly eight years. Although the <i>Lusitania</i>'s life was cut short during the First World War, the <i>Mauretania</i> continued to have an impressive presence at sea. She held the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing until 1929, and had a glorious career that spanned the first four decades of the twentieth century.</p> <p>Full of rare photographs and illustrations, The Unseen <i>Mauretania</i> [1907] reveals one of Cunard's most legendary ocean liners as you have never seen her before.</p>