Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Author(s): Erik Larson

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative non-fiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster On 1 May, 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 was tracking 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. 

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General Fields

  • : 9781925106503
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : 0.555
  • : February 2015
  • : 233mm X 154mm X 33mm
  • : Australia
  • : May 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Erik Larson
  • : Paperback
  • : May-15
  • : English
  • : 940.4514
  • : very good
  • : 448
  • : HBWN