Dead Wake : the Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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Call Number: BOCD 940.451 La, Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / History / Larson, Erik
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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"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, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. He knew, moreover, that his ship--the fastest then in service--could outrun any threat. 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" -- provided by publisher.

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Well researched history submitted by mbleed on June 12, 2015, 10:36am A well researched history of the last weeks of the Lusitania. Impressive narrative given that very few artistic liberties are taken, everything is straight from history. A great followup to Devil in the White City.

captivating submitted by sumsaylor on July 29, 2015, 3:00pm Dead Wake, Larson’s gripping narrative of the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania is a fascinating account of this tragic event. It is well researched and the details are captivating.