Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house...
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th 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
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307408860 (0307408868)
ASIN: 307408868
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
I loved this book. It grabbed my attention immediately and filled in some gaps in my understating of the events leading to the American entrance to the war. Larson has once again proven his standing as one of the leading non-fiction writers in this decade.The way Larson wove the passenger’s personal...
Today I'm going to tell you about Deep Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania aka reason #5022 why I will never go on a cruise. I have an odd fascination with shipwrecks but also a deep, crushing fear of them. I cannot deal with images of sunken ships, statues, or really anything submerged under t...
From the 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 r...
This was a great reading. It's excellently researched, and amazingly written. I'm still kind of speechless. The author gives a good idea of the climate in England, Germany and Washington DC at the moment, the importance of the Lusitania, the facts that converged to allow the sinking of the her, who ...
note: I'm not doing reading it as of yet because I've got a really bad head cold so in case I don't get done with it in the time I'm posting this early. So much historical facts in it that I didn't even know about It pulls on everything, your very soul, heart and emotions Emotional,dramatic,powerful...
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