Format:
Book
Author:
Larson, Erik, 1954- author.
Title:
Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania / Erik Larson.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
©2015
Description:
430 pages : illustration, maps ; 25 cm
Summary:
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. 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, all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.
Subjects:
Lusitania (Steamship)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, German.
Shipping -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Steamboat disasters.
Submarines (Ships) -- Germany.
Great Britain -- History.
Germany -- History.
Notes:
Maps on end papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-418) and index.
LCCN:
2014034182
ISBN:
9780307408860 (hardcover)
0307408868 (hardcover)
9780307408877 (paperback)
0307408876 (paperback)
Other Number:
890011483
System Availability:
148
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3286818
Call Number:
940.4/514
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
145