Miracles on the Water

“A really wonderful book . . . the almost unbelievable account of what happened when the ship went down . . . an extraordinary story, well told.” — Good Morning America On September seventeen, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, but the ship's prized passengers were ninety children whose parents had elected to send their boys and girls away from Great Britain to Canada t