Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
A History, Nonfiction, Audiobook book. NOW FIVE DAYS into its voyage, the Lusitania made its way toward Britain alone, with no...
#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn 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,...
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Koerver reports another example of delusional thinking within the German navy. Adm. Edouard von Capelle said, on Feb. 1, 1917, From a military point of view I rate the effect of America coming on the side of our enemies as nil. Tuchman, Zimmermann Telegram, 139; Koerver, German Submarine Warfare, xxxiii. Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania // NOW FIVE DAYS into its voyage, the Lusitania made its way toward Britain alone, with no escort offered or planned, and no instruction to take the newly opened and safer North Channel routethis despite the fact that the ship carried a valuable cache of rifle cartridges and desperately needed shrapnel shells. Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania // Nor did the inquiry ever delve into why the Lusitania wasnt diverted to the safer North Channel route, and why no naval escort was provided. Indeed, these are the great lingering questions of the Lusitania affair: Why, given all the information possessed by the Admiralty about U-20; given the Admiraltys past willingness to provide escorts to inbound ships or divert them away from trouble; given that the ship carried a vital cargo of rifle ammunition and artillery shells; given that Room 40s intelligence prompted the obsessive tracking and protection...
He saw the body of the torpedo moving well ahead of the wake, through water he described as being a beautiful green. The torpedo was covered with a silvery phosphorescence, you might term it, which was caused by the air escaping from the motors.He said, It was a beautiful sight. The last known photo of the Lusitania.The term unsinkable... Wow....This is an all-embracing historical heartbreak story....a tragedy that could have been avoided. The seas were a war zone ..Right from the start, we learn that their were delays leaving New York...( America was not yet at war yet in May, 1915, against Germany). Red flag warnings were everywhere. They were suppose to run the ship... As I began reading into the subject, and digging into archives in America and Britain, I found myself intrigued . . . In short, I was hooked. Most everything I knew about the Lusitania/WWI (gleaned from public school and collegian textbooks) has turned out to be watered down half-truths, at best. After reading Dead Wake I could almost...
