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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania par E. Larson (RMS Lusitania) - Photo 1/1

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Dead Wake : The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (2016, Trade Paperback)

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#1 New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania On May 1, 1915, with WWI 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307408876
ISBN-13
9780307408877
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204161965

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dead Wake : the Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Military / Naval, Modern / 20th Century, Military / World War I, Ships & Shipbuilding / History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, History
Author
Erik Larson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Lccn
2014-034182
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Dewey Decimal
940.4/514
Grade to
Twelfth Grade
Lc Classification Number
D592.L8l28 2015
Copyright Date
2014

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