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-- Last crossing of the Lusitania[2014]., Adult, Random House Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: 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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2024., Anthony Kirby Publishing Call No: NEW QWF Fic Kir Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Michael Sullivan and Virginia Martin are witnesses to the outbreak of WWI, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Easter Rising in 1916 Dublin, and the horrors of the Great War at the Front in Belgium, the Somme and Arras / Vimy Ridge. Twenty-four-year-old bank official Michael enlists in the Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, and joins the fighting in the trenches in Belgium. Virginia, a nursing student in Dublin, is asked to aid her fellow nurses in Cork to care for the survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania. Michael, lamed up with trench foot, returns to Ireland and is in Dublin when the Easter Rising occurs, in the difficult position as an Irish officer in the British Army as Irish Nationalists stage a rebellion. Michael rejoins the Leinster Regiment in time to fight in the Battle of the Somme, and in other offensives, including Arras / Vimy Ridge. Though disillusioned Michael Sullivan believes in the Dream of a Free Ireland. With Virginia at his side he looks towards a future there.
