ID: | 17263 |
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Entry Text: | Nagorski, Tom. Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack on the SS City of Benares: One of the Great Lost Stories of World War II. London: Hyperion; London: Robinson, 2006, 2007, xx, 345 pp. Account of SS City of Benares, September 1940, from Liverpool enroute Canada; sunk by German U-boat; among casualties, 90 children sent out of Britain; inspirational story of bravery. |