Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship
Year: 2019 Language: english Author: Deborah Heiligman Performer: Marisa Calin Publisher: Macmillan Audio Type: audiobook Audio codec: MP3 Audio bitrate: 44 Description: 2020 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set out in a convoy of 19 ships sailing for Canada. On board were 90 CORB children, chaperones, and crew, along with paying passengers. When the war ships escorting the Benares to safe waters peeled off and the way forward seemed certain, a German submarine attacked and torpedoed the Benares. What followed is an amazing example of all that people are capable of - the worst, and the best.
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Deborah Heiligman - Torpedoed The True Story of the World War II Sinking of The Children's Ship
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Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship
Language: english
Author: Deborah Heiligman
Performer: Marisa Calin
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Type: audiobook
Audio codec: MP3
Audio bitrate: 44
Description: 2020 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist
From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII.
Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set out in a convoy of 19 ships sailing for Canada. On board were 90 CORB children, chaperones, and crew, along with paying passengers.
When the war ships escorting the Benares to safe waters peeled off and the way forward seemed certain, a German submarine attacked and torpedoed the Benares. What followed is an amazing example of all that people are capable of - the worst, and the best.
Deborah Heiligman - Torpedoed The True Story of the World War II Sinking of The Children's Ship
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