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The Lusitania's Final Crossing
From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction, Erik Larson, comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania in his book "Dead Wake." This New York Times bestseller has been praised as "both terrifying and enthralling" by Entertainment Weekly, "thrilling, dramatic and powerful" by NPR, and "thoroughly engrossing" by George R.R. Martin.
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. The Lusitania was carrying a record number of children and infants, and 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 had, for a century, kept civilian ships safe from attack.
However, Germany 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.
Larson's "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.
The book has been recognized as a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award and one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, and Indigo.
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