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Historical Non Fiction - Goodnight, Sorry For Sinking You: The Story of the S.S. City of Cairo Kindle Edition
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On 6th November 1942 the S.S. City of Cairo was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-68 in the middle of the South Atlantic.
Nearly 300 men, women and children escaped in lifeboats as commander Karl-Friedrich Merten gloated to the captain of the Cairo, ‘Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you’, and pointed out how unlikely it was any of them would survive. What followed is one of the greatest tales of survival and endurance.
The Cairo’s captain decided their only hope of survival was to sail 480 miles to Helena, despite the considerable chance of getting lost forever. The journey would take weeks and with water rationed to just 110ml a day despite the tropical heat, the survivors grew weak and the extremes of human nature – the depravity and the heroism – would reveal themselves. Things would get worse for them as the lifeboats separated and eventually lost contact with each other, and many died of thirst or exposure.
In this riveting book, Ralph Barker reconstructs the story of the sinking, incorporating real accounts from survivors of the tragedy.
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On 6th November 1942 the S.S. City of Cairo was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-68 in the middle of the South Atlantic.
Nearly 300 men, women and children escaped in lifeboats as commander Karl-Friedrich Merten gloated to the captain of the Cairo, ‘Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you’, and pointed out how unlikely it was any of them would survive. What followed is one of the greatest tales of survival and endurance.
The Cairo’s captain decided their only hope of survival was to sail 480 miles to Helena, despite the considerable chance of getting lost forever. The journey would take weeks and with water rationed to just 110ml a day despite the tropical heat, the survivors grew weak and the extremes of human nature – the depravity and the heroism – would reveal themselves. Things would get worse for them as the lifeboats separated and eventually lost contact with each other, and many died of thirst or exposure.
In this riveting book, Ralph Barker reconstructs the story of the sinking, incorporating real accounts from survivors of the tragedy.
Product details - ASIN : B08596LMX5
- Publisher : Lume Books (27 Feb. 2020)
- Language : English
- File size : 3611 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 271 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 116,141 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 798 in World History (Kindle Store)
- 1,780 in World History of World War II 1939-1945
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