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    Erik Larson's Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Summary
    Erik Larson's Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Summary
    Erik Larson's Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Summary
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    This is a Summary of Erik Larson's #1 New York Times Bestseller Dead Wake The Last Crossing 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.

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    PublisherAnt Hive Media
    Release dateApr 27, 2016
    ISBN9781311284969
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      Table of Contents

      A GIFT FOR YOU

      INTRODUCTION

      SUMMARY

      A WORD FROM THE CAPTAIN

      PART 1: BLOODY MONKEYS

      PART II: JUMP ROPE AND CAVIAR

      PART III: DEAD WAKE

      PART IV: THE BLACK SOUL

      PART V: THE SEA OF SECRETS

      EPILOGUE

      ANALYSIS

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