| Entry Text: | HUXLEY, Elspeth. Atlantic Ordeal: The Story of Mary Cornish. [v], 87p., illus. London: Chatto & Windus, 1941; New York: Harper, 1942.
The City of Benares was torpedoed while carrying evacuee children. Cornish spent over a week in an open boat with some of them before being rescued. |
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