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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...
Series
Ocean liners of the past volume no. 2
Publisher
New York Graphic Society
Pub. Date
[c1970]
Physical Desc
208 p., 9 plates (5 fold.) illus. 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
American spy and war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb follows a man who may be a German secret service agent with vital information onto the Lusitania during World War I.
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Publisher
Madison Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Lusitania was the biggest, fastest and most luxurious ocean liner afloat until on May 7, 1915, it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. Confident that she could "outrun any U-boat", the Lusitania's captain ignored German warnings, resulting in the tragic deaths of 1,198 passengers, more than half of those on board. Many of the victims were internationally famous. Reconstructed from hundreds of survivors' accounts...
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English
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"May 2013: Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer's-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (215 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Discover the astonishing real-life stories behind the world's most famous underwater mysteries in three extraordinary National Geographic presentations. Join famed oceanic adventurer Dr. Robert Ballard on the original, history-making deep-sea expedition to locate and explore the world's most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic. Then, go in search of the truth behind the WWII sinking of the civilian luxury liner the Lusitania. And journey into the distant...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers...
12) The Lusitania
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Description
A London Times correspondent uncovers new information about the sinking of the passenger vessel Lusitania, an incident that influenced the U.S. to enter World War I.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
266 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mystery on the 1907 maiden voyage of the Lusitania, through the eyes of the ship's detective. He is former Pinkerton man George Dillman and as he observes the rich at play, he solves a murder.
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Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
203 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While traveling to England with his mother and great-aunt on the ocean liner Lusitania in 1911, thirteen-year-old Nate, delighted to find that the Houdinis are also on board, finds himself involved in another dangerous adventure as he and Houdini try to find the man responsible for attempting to assassinate another passenger--President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought with poison gas, torpedoes killing civilians, and aerial bombardment. Each of these actions violated rules of war carefully agreed at the Hague Conventions of 1898 and 1907. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. While each of these momentous events has been chronicled in histories of the war, historian Diana Preston links...
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