Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2332056
ISBN: 9780307408860
First edition. Tiny crease to jacket flap.
430 pp. 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.
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