Dead Wake [Book Club Set]
The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
New York : Crown Publishers, [2015]
Format: Kit
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Edition: First edition.
Description: Includes 15 paperback books in one bag.
From the #1 New York Times 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.
Contents:
Mining suspense -- A word from the captain -- "Bloody monkeys" -- Jump rope and caviar -- Dead wake -- The black soul -- The sea of secrets -- Epilogue: personal effects.
Subjects:
Lusitania (Steamship)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, German.
Shipping -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Book club set, Adult.
Lusitania (Steamship)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, German.
Shipping -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Book club set, Adult.
Target Audience: 1190L
ISBN:
9780307408860 (hardcover)
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BOOK CLUB SET Dead | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Book Club Set | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-418) and index.