![]() ![]() Martin's and thoroughly excellent, is destined to play second-fiddle to the season's other book on the Lusitania, Dead Wake by Erik Larson, the mega-bestselling author of such books as Isaac's Storm, Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck, and the brilliant In the Garden of Beasts. And since 128 of the dead were Americans, the publicity coup reached across the Atlantic and may have played a part in convincing the United States to enter the war in 1917.In other words, it's a pivotal historical event ripe for narrative re-visiting on the occasion of its anniversary, and it's for this reason that we should all spare a moment of profound sympathy for Penny Wilson and Greg King, whose book Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Era, new from St. ![]() 1, 265 of the dead had been passengers – men, women, families, a great many children – and this gave the British government an unbeatable public relations coup in its propaganda war against Germany, despite the fact that the Germans were entirely correct to consider the ship a vessel of war, since it was carrying munitions intended for front-line British troops. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitaniaby Erik LarsonCrown, 20152015 marks the 100 th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, at the cost of 1,198 of the roughly 2000 people on board. ![]()
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