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...
Dead Wake wasn't quite as much of an attention grabber as Devil in the White City, but it is still a page turner. Larson's unique ability to interweave stories with stories is definitely a trait of his that will keep me coming back. Not to mention his books being incredibly well researched and put t...
There have been many books written about the sinking of the Lusitania, but you've probably never read it in the manner presented by Larson. He gives voice (and flesh) to many of the souls who sailed on that last voyage in 1915. The events that led to the sinking were 'incredible', to say the least. ...
After sleeping away the unsettlement caused by finishing the book last night, I remembered to check my notes for the text I found interesting. -- "His presence had the perverse effect of affirming everything the passengers had been fearing since their departure from New York, in the way that a pri...
Churchill was a magnificent bastard. Wilson seems emotionally manipulative, but maybe just a product of his time, in regards to the woman he dated and married after his wife's passing. Also to America, seems to have been the precedent for that pesky "good" reason for the country to enter into war ...
I'm torn with this book. There were times when I thought: Wow, this is amazing. So much detail. So much research went into this book. And then there were times when I thought: Ok, are we done yet. This is starting to get boring. Did the ship sink yet? Ok, the ship sunk, is the book done yet?I just d...
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