Torpedoed! A World War II Story of a Sinking Passenger Ship and Two Children’s Survival at Sea
Cheryl Mullenbach. Jacket Illustration by Marnie Galloway
In 1939, Florence Kelly, fourteen, and Russell Park, eleven, leave their hometowns for summer holidays in Europe. Their true-life experiences, and those of their families, frame an account of the S.S. Athenia’s sinking. The ship was the first sunk by German submarines in the Atlantic battle of World War II. The narrative includes a prologue, epilogue, timeline, notes, bibliography, and index.
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