Author: BARKER Ralph
Title: Children of the Benares. A War Crime and its Victims.
Description: Methuen,, [1984]. 8vo., First Edition, with 22 plates on 8, page-edges very lightly browing; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed account of the torpedoing in December 1940 - one of the earliest and most horrific examples of unrestricted submarine warfare of WWII. Over 80 children en route to safety in Canada were lost. Ensr, p.234.

Keywords: naval, ww2, merchant navy, city of benares, war crimes, ralph barker, naval, maritime, children, benares


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