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Torpedoed
Author | : Deborah Heiligman |
Publsiher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781250187550 |
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From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, 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 sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.
Torpedoed
Author | : Cheryl Mullenbach |
Publsiher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781613738276 |
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Through first-hand accounts, interviews with survivors, powerful images, and primary sources, award-winning children's author Cheryl Mullenbach brings to life the pre-war environment in both America and Europe. Torpedoed! vividly re-creates the events surrounding the sinking of the SS Athenia, the first ship lost in the battle of the Atlantic during World War II. The amazing stories of fear and hope are recounted through the words of two American children onboard that day.
Torpedoed
Author | : Philip Lecane |
Publsiher | : Periscope Publishing Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1904381294 |
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The long forgotten story of the sinking of the R.M.S. Leinster in the dying days of the First World War is brought back to life in this tale of the disaster. The book tells the stories of those on board the Leinster and UB-123 and examines not only the sinking but also its ramifications for those left behind.
Torpedoed
Author | : Charles G Dyer |
Publsiher | : BookCountry |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781463001599 |
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After recently qualifying as a doctor, Lesley Meredith has just got over the traumatic experiences of tending the wounded after Dunkirk. Now the Nazis are bombing Britain and the Blitz has begun in London and other major cities. She is tired and terrified after a night shift surrounded by explosions. She gets home to find that a bomb destroyed her house and killed some of her neighbours. Lesley has had enough. She decides to go overseas to her parents’ home. In Germany, U-boat commander Arn Weitzmann is informed that RAF bombs dropped on Berlin killed his father. He swears revenge. Destiny draws these two people towards each other...
Athenia Torpedoed
Author | : Francis M Carroll |
Publsiher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612511559 |
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Just hours after World War II was declared, Germany struck its first blow, firing without warning on the passenger liner Athenia. The British ship was loaded with Americans, Canadians, and Europeans attempting to cross the Atlantic before the outbreak of war. As the ship sank, 1,306 were rescued but 112 people were lost, including thirty Americans. This account of the disaster, based on new research, tells a dramatic story of tragedy and triumph, as historian Francis Carroll chronicles the survivors' experiences and explains how the incident shaped policy in the U.S., UK, and Canada. For Britain, it was seen as a violation of international law and convoys were sent to protect shipping. In Canada, Athenia's sinking rallied support to go to war. In the United States, it exposed Germany as a serious threat and changed public opinion enough to allow the country to sell munitions and supplies to Britain and France.
Torpedo Junction
Author | : Homer H Hickam |
Publsiher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1996-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781612515786 |
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In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area "Torpedo Junction." And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful of Coast Guard sailors scrambled to the front lines. Outgunned and out-maneuvered, they heroically battled the deadliest fleet of submarines ever launched. Never was Germany closer to winning the war. In a moving ship-by-ship account of terror and rescue at sea, Homer Hickam chronicles a little-known saga of courage, ingenuity, and triumph in the early years of World War II. From nerve-racking sea duels to the dramatic ordeals of sailors and victims on both sides of the battle, Hickam dramatically captures a war we had to win--because this one hit terrifyingly close to home.
Torpedoed
Author | : Edmond D. Pope,Tom Shactman |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2001-11-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0316348732 |
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He was a man of mystery: Edmond D. Pope -- former Naval Intelligence officer, then private businessman, in Russia looking for some answers. It was a top secret operation: The CIA and the Canadian secret service -- out to steal one of Russia's crown jewels: the plans to a submarine torpedo that travels an astonishing 300 miles per hour. He was the new man in charge: Vladimir Putin -- former head of the KGB, now boss of all Russia and a man who wanted to set an example at almost any cost. Now, for the first time ever, Ed Pope tells the real story of what led to his becoming the first American since Gary Powers to be convicted of espionage in Russia. Combining a gripping account of his arrest, trial and 253-day imprisonment with a deeply disturbing look at today's Russia, Pope's harrowing story reads like a Le Carre novel come to life. And with a large dollop of espionage-insider information and secret submarine warfare technology, Ed Pope's harrowing memoir will remind readers of the best of Tom Clancy.
Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare
Author | : Charles William Sleeman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Naval art and science |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433006792984 |
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