Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
(Adult Book)
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Status
Adult Nonfiction - Adult Books
940.451 Lar
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940.451 Lar
1 available
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Format
Adult Book
Physical Desc
430 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 8.6, 20 Points
Level 8.6, 20 Points
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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 eras 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 Schwiegers 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 dont, 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Larson, E. (2015). Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania . Crown Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Larson, Erik, 1954-. 2015. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Crown Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Larson, Erik, 1954-. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Crown Publishers, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Crown Publishers, 2015.
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