Torpedoed : the true story of the World War II sinking of the SS city of Benares
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Torpedoed : the true story of the World War II sinking of the SS city of Benares
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The work Torpedoed : the true story of the World War II sinking of the SS city of Benares represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.
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- Torpedoed : the true story of the World War II sinking of the SS city of Benares
- Title remainder
- the true story of the World War II sinking of the SS city of Benares
- Statement of responsibility
- Deborah Heiligman
- Subject
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- Children's audiobooks
- Children's audiobooks
- City of Benares (Ship) -- Juvenile literature
- Downloadable audio books
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / General
- Juvenile works
- Personal narratives -- British
- Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literature
- Audiobooks
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British | Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, German -- Juvenile literature
- Audiobooks
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes 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 nineteen ships sailing for Canada. On board were ninety 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
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- RECBC
- Dewey number
- 940.54293
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Intended audience
- 7 years and up
- LC call number
- D772.C46
- LC item number
- H45 2019
- Literary text for sound recordings
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- history
- biography
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Narrated by Marisa Calin
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
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