A fictional account as to how the Cunard ship Queen Elizabeth’s destination was hidden from the enemy on her voyage from the Clyde in 1940.

Profits from the sale of this book will go to Seafarers UK [formerly King George Fund for Sailors] to support the families of seafarers, fishermen, Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel facing hardship.

£2-50 per copy.
Free postage.
Cheque payable to J. G. Avery
at Beech Books, 2 Beech Court,
Beech Avenue, Southampton SO18 4TS

also on sale at:
The Echo Shop Southampton and
Local Studies, SCC Central Library,
Witts Hill PO Midanbury

 In a small lodging house in wartime Southampton a few residents’ lives mingle.
There was Mr Cooper the paint manufacturer’s representative who seems to be a man of mystery with contacts with the police and the authorities. Enid the teaching assistant quizzing the children about ship and troop postings seemed to know when it was best to be out of town to avoid an air raid. Inevitably their paths would soon cross.

Winston Churchill, First Sea Lord, had sanctioned a secret plan to encourage the Germans to believe that the newly built Queen Elizabeth would head for the giant graving dock at Southampton. Edwin Cooper’s job was to make sure that the people
of Southampton in the right places prepared for her arrival.

The booklet, a fictional account interweaves with historical fact and follows the story of the deception in 1940.