Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
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Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
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The work Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.
- Label
- Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania
- Title remainder
- the last crossing of the Lusitania
- Statement of responsibility
- Erik Larson
- Subject
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- Downloadable audio books
- Great Britain
- History
- Lusitania (Steamship)
- Lusitania (Steamship)
- Military operations, Naval -- German
- Shipping -- Government policy
- 1900 - 1999
- World War (1914-1918)
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, German
- Shipping -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Audiobooks
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From the #1 New York Times 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 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. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small--hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- Dewey number
- 940.4/514
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- D592.L8
- LC item number
- L28 2015ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- history
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Scott Brick
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
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