![]() ![]() ![]() Larson explains that the passengers on board were not anxious about the war even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. The captain of the Lusitania was confident that the gentlemanly strictures of warfare, which forbade the attacking of civilian ships, would hold up as they had for a century. In Dead Wake, the fastest liner in service set sail from New York bound for Liverpool on May 1, 1915, when World War I was entering its 10th month. The author, Erik Larson, has already published four best-sellers in which he fuses history and entertainment to give a vivid account for what took place. This is a thrilling account of the sinking of the Lusitania – how it happened and the people it affected. ![]()
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