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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]
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208 p., 9 plates (5 fold.) illus. 25 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Madison Books
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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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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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...
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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
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"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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