Deborah Heiligman presents Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of 'The Children's Ship'

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360663 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of 'The Children's Ship' Author: Deborah Heiligman Narrator: Marisa Calin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: October 8, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Non-fiction Publisher's Summary: 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 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.