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Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the SS City of Benares

By Deborah Heiligman
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Macmillan Imprint Henry Holt and Company, Inc. ISBN

9781627795548

Awards and Honors 2020 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Finalist <br> <i>Kirkus</i> Best Books - 2019 <br> <i>Horn Book</i> Fanfare - 2019 <br> CPL Best Books - 2019 <br> The Nonfiction Detectives Best Nonfiction Books - 2019 <br> YALSA Award Honoree - 2020

Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the SS City of Benares

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Violence: War/Harsh Realities of War

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 Benaresset 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.



Author’s note. List of people in the book. “After the Voyage.” Select bibliography. Endnotes. Index. Black-and-white illustrations, photographs, and reproductions.
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