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.
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The RAF At War
An overview of British aerial operations in World War II.
Read MoreShipbusters
The story of the daring RAF pilots who flew low-level torpedo attacks against German battleships in World War II.
Read MoreThe Royal Flying Corps in World War Volumes I and II
'Ralph Barker has written a masterly anecdotal history of the flying war over France, and the courageous 'bird-men', who gave such dedicated support to the regiments deadlocked in the trenches beneath them' - Daily Telegraph
Read MoreGoodnight, Sorry For Sinking You
In late 1942 the elderly Ellerman Line steamer City of Cairo was on a voyage from Capetown to Brazil when seven days into the Atlantic crossing the ship was sunk by a U-Boat. There were 300 persons, including women and children and crew aboard.
Read MoreHurricats
A thoroughly-researched account of this little known aspect of Second World War Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm operations.
Read MoreThe Blockade Busters
The story of how George Binney, a 39 year-old civilian working in neutral Sweden set about running vital cargoes of Swedish ball-bearings and special steels to Britain through the blockaded Skagerrak.
One of the greatest sea stories of World War II
Read MoreAgainst The Sea
Twelve superb sea stories and examples of man's eternal struggle with the sea.
Read MoreDown In The Drink
Among those who fought in the ferocious battles for the skies during the Second World War, some - shot down, or forced to ditch - had to confront an exceptionally pitiless enemy: the sea.
Read MoreMen Of The Bombers
Ten remarkable true accounts of unusual incidents and happenings to Bomber Command aircrew during World War Two.
Read MoreSurvival In The Sky
Fifteen "dramas of the air"
There can be nothing more poignant than a sequence of events which gives some occupants of an aircraft a chance of escape and others none.
Read MoreThe Thousand Plan
The story of the first large scale bombing in history, the R.A.F.'s firebombing of Cologne, Germany in 1942.
Read MoreStrike Hard, Strike Sure
All these stories are eloquent of devotion and endurance...all are moving. They are told graphically without sensationalism. (Times Literary Supplement)
Tales of Supreme Bravery (Daily Telegraph)