Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson
Crown/Archetype
<b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the <i>Lusitania</i>, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster</b><br>  <br> On May 1, 1915, 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 anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the <i>Lusitania</i> was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" 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. He knew, moreover, that his ship--the fastest then in service--could outrun any threat. <br><br> Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and...</br></br></br></br>