This well-researched tale also presents many interesting facts surrounding the Lusitania’s demise, including that British intelligence knew there was a U-Boat in the area and neglected to alert the ship, the German threat to take down the Lusitania once it entered British waters printed in the New York papers, and the fact that some members of the British admiralty actually hoped the Lusitania would be sunk because it would galvanize the United States to enter the war on the side of Great Britain. Each story makes a unique contribution to the whole tale of the Lusitania. Larson does an amazing job following different people, from the captain to one of the crew to the passengers, as they prepared for and embarked on the fateful journey. “Dead Wake” follows the final crossing of the Lusitania, a civilian ship famously sunk by a German U-Boat off the coast of Ireland in 1915 during World War I. The fact that this one was written by Erik Larson, who also wrote the amazing “ Devil in the White City”, was just a bonus. Confession: if there’s a nonfiction book about a manmade disaster, especially a shipwreck, I am going to read it.
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