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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
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Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
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
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community's monumental contribution to that effort.
One of the indelible images of World War II is of an explosion at sea-- a U-boat attack, a ship in flames, and an ocean full of men swimming for their lives. The Mathews Men tells the story of what it was like...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Churchill admitted after World War II, 'The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.' Take a look at the German U-boats - and how they almost were the deciding factor in World War II - in this BBC documentary.
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