All brave sailors : the sinking of the Anglo-Saxon, August 21, 1940 /J. Revell Carr.

"In the darkness of 21 August 1940, eight hundred miles to the west of the Canary Islands in mid-Atlantic, a German warship ambushed and sank a British freighter, the Anglo-Saxon. A small and dwindling band of men from the Anglo-Saxon - initially seven in number - escaped in its jolly boat and, equipped with just a compass for navigation, embarked on what would become one of the longest open boat voyages in recorded history, a ten-week ordeal of hunger and thirst, death and survival. [...] The Anglo-Saxon survivors' story caught the imagination of millions through the widespread media coverage of the time and, at a time when the US was neutral, opened American eyes to the horrors of the war in Europe - but has since been largely forgotten."--Provided by the publisher.