Entry Text: | HAWKINS, Doris M. Atlantic Torpedo: The Record of 27 Days in an Open Boat Following a U-Boat Sinking, by the Only Woman Survivor. 48p. London: Gollancz, 1943.
Her ship was sunk in the South Atlantic and her boatload of survivors eventually reached Liberia. She aims to bring home to readers the horror and suffering of the sea war. Reprinted by Chivers in 1969. |
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