Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00R8JY0FC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 281 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The Mystery of Room 40 and the Sinking of Humanity IsolaBlue Erik Larson is not capable of writing anything less than a gripping account of history. All of his previous books have been spellbinding accounts of storms, cities, crimes, inventions, ships and/or war. In DEAD WAKE: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Larson returns to the subjects of war and ships and stirs in a potent mixture of international politics as well as a little romance to once again seduce his readers with a contemporary view of an historical situation.Written to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania, a Cunard passenger liner sunk by a G. "Excellent Narrative of Terrible Attack" according to Bassocantor. DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA is the story of a horrific event that ended the lives of over 1,000 people. The sinking also played a key role in changing America’s view toward Germany, and helped change America’s “neutral” position in World War I. It was two years after this sinking that the United States declared war on Germany.Recall that at this time America was not yet in the war against Germany; America was neutral. Over in England, Churchill hoped this would change: “For our part, we want the traffic--the more the better; and i. You already know the ending The Lusitania is sunk by German U bait 20 and the US enters WWI almost exactly 2 years later.So now that I have spoiled the ending for you, one can enjoy the journey. Unlike the Devil in the White City, this maritime disaster is well known and there are thousands if not millions of words speculating to the how and why. If one is looking for that, save your time and money, as this a book about the human side of the tragedy and the comedy of errors that led up to it. I am still dumbfounded by the callous attitude of British I telling cel and their zeal to protect their methods to
From the number-one New York Times best-selling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the one-hundredth anniversary of the disaster.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. 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. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their ways toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingl