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Written in 1992 by the Italian maritime historian MAURIZIO ELISEO and soon after that date out of print, it has been the opera prima for him. Hard bound, large format, colorful dust jacket, 260 pages printed on luxury glossy paper. illustrated by hundreds of photographs that show the birth of a great ocean liner, the construction, the launch, the maiden voyage, the record crossing in 1933, all classes interiors, officers, crew and VIP's who crossed the Atlantic aboard and the tragic fate during the war. But also memorabilia, documents and a bird’s eye view of the Italian maritime scene which preceded the Rex’s conception. A section is dedicated to the various ships that won the Blue Riband from the Sirius in 1837 to the United States in 1952 and another one to the great 1:100 scale navigating model of the REX built by the author which was the imput to produce this wonderful book.