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Paperback. Very Good.

Garage: Avid Publications, 2003. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Condition good. ref ZKVQ

Avid Publications, 2003-11-19. paperback. Very Good. 9x6x1. Book is in very good condition. All pages are intact and unmarked.

London: Grafton Books, 1990. No marks or inscriptions. Tiny creases to cover corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing and no bumping to corners. 240pp. The torpedoing of the City of Benares in the Atlantic was a war crime, carrying as it was evacuee children to Canada. The author has examined what really happened behind the scenes at the Admiralty and the the Ministry of Shiiping and the result is harrowing. Photographic illustrations.. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 7 x 4.25 inches.

london: Methuen, 1987. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. 8vo. pp.172

Wirral: Avid Publications. Fine. 2003. Paperback. 1902964071 . 253pp, illusatrated, paperback with flaps; Large Octavo .

Methuen, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The jacket is shelf rubbed.Light tanning.Well bound.Very good copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Methuen, 1987. 172 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs. "When the passenger liner 'City of Benares' sailed from Liverpool on Friday, 13 September 1940 she was carrying 90 evacuee children from the bombed cities of Britain, bound under a government-sponsored scheme for a safe haven in Canada. Her sinking by U-boat four days later, without warning, in total disregard of the plight of survivors and in defiance of international law, shocked and horrified the civilised world. Of 406 people on board 256 were lost - including, at first count, 83 of the evacuee children. In Britain and the Commonwealth the reaction was one of righteous indignation, accompanied by an intense desire for retribution. Nor was the propaganda value neglected, a broadcast by King George VI the day after the news broke being clearly directed at neutral America. 'The world,' he said, 'could have no clearer proof of the wickedness against which we fight than this foul deed'. Suspicions… Ler mais

London: Methuen [0-413-42310-7] 1987, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 172pp. Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Photographs, appendices, notes, index. There is a previous owner's name on the title page and minor underlining in red pencil in the text. "When the passenger liner City of Benares sailed from Liverpool on Friday, 13 September 1940 she was carrying 90 evacuee children from the bombed cities of Britain, bound under a government-sponsored scheme for a safe haven in Canada. Her sinking by U-boat four days later, without warning, in total disregard of the plight of survivors and in defiance of international law, shocked and horrified the civilised world". Time Period World War 2. (World War II, International Affairs, U-Boats, War Crimes, World War II).

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.