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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Who knew that German submarine U-869, long thought to have been sunk off Gibraltar in 1945, was actually sunk by its own torpedo less than 60 miles from Brielle, New Jersey? No one--until 1991, when two death-cheating wreck-divers began exploring the boat's wrecked hull, 230 feet underwater.
Author
Series
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A riveting WWII account of survival at sea-Book 4 in the True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours."--
Author
Series
True survival volume 1
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On September 12, 1942, the RMS Laconia was attacked by a German submarine five hundred miles off the coast of western Africa. What the Germans didn't know was that they had just attacked their allies: locked below decks on the British ship were nearly 1,800 Italian prisoners of war. When the Germans realized their mistake, they made the unprecedented decision to rescue all survivors regardless of their nationality, attempting to declare the waters...
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The German U-Boat war against American merchant men was deadly and dramatic-- in World War II, the U.S. Merchant Marine had twice the fatality rate of the U.S. Navy. William Geroux has unearthed a fascinating tale of one small coastal town caught in the thick of the fight, and he tells it with a sharp reporter's eye and a real feel for the heroic men who went down to the sea in ships. --Provided by publisher.
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