| Entry Text: | WILLIAMS, David L. Lifeline Across the Sea: Mercy Ships of the Second World War and Their Repatriation Missions. 158p., illus. Stroud: History Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780750961356. The safe exchange of wounded servicemen, sick POWs, diplomats and civilians was a dangerous activity. Some fifty mercy ships engaged in these repatriation voyages, each of the exchanges arranged individually between Allied nations and the Axis belligerents, through neutral intermediaries such as the Red Cross. |
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