Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Larson, Erik
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On May 1, 1915, with World War I entering its tenth month, 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 surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "greyhounds" -- the fastest liner then in service -- and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack.
Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20 was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat but told no one. As u-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small -- hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more -- all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.
It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.
Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history.
Crown Publishers, Hardcover, 1st Edition, Later Printing, 2015
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- Title
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
- Author
- Larson, Erik
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307408868
- ISBN 13
- 9780307408860
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2015
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