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Book:Name: Larson, Erik - Dead Wake - Larson, Erik
Format: epub
Size: 951.7 KB
Description:Title: Larson, Erik - Dead Wake
Author: Larson, Erik
Language: English
Year: 2015
Subjects: History, Military, Nonfiction
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
ISBN: 9780307408877
Total pages: N/A
Download from RapidGatorFrom 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 and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" 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. He knew, moreover, that his ship--the fastest then in service--could outrun any threat.
Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and...
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