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2) Titanic
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Language
English
Description
Discusses the Titanic, including its design, how the ship sank, the passengers onboard, and why the ship's legacy lives on.
Author
Language
English
Description
Recounts the attack on passenger ship SS "City of Benares" during WWII, which was carrying nearly 100 British children escaping from the German onslaught of England's major cities as part of the Children's Overseas Reception Board program. As their military escort departed on the way to Canadian ports, a German submarine torpedoed the ship, not knowing it was a civilian ship carrying children. The author draws on first-hand accounts of the tragedy,...