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Author: Diana Preston
Publisher: Raincoast Books
ISBN: 9781551926421
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Three years after the tragic sinking of the Titanic, another luxury liner went to a watery grave beneath the icy depths of the North Atlantic. The sinking of the Lusitania, torpedoed by a German U-boat in a sneak attack off the coast of Ireland, was one of the most pivotal and universally condemned acts of World War I. Diana Preston chronicles the shipboard experiences of three children who were on that fateful voyage. Eleven-year-old Frank Hook, a third-class passenger, was moving to England with his father and older sister. Twelve-year-old Avis Dolphin, a second-class passenger, was being sent to an English boarding school with a chaperone. And five-month-old Audrey Pearl was traveling in luxurious first class with her parents, three siblings, and two nannies. From different walks of life and varied circumstances, these three children shared a common bond-they all survived one of the most disastrous shipwrecks in history. Their stories, taken from firsthand accounts, personal interviews, and historical documents, provide a riveting look at one of the most tragic and significant events of World War I.

Author: Erik Larson
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0553446754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin 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. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo

Author: Steven Otfinoski
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1476541868
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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"Describes the sinking of the Lusitania. Readers' choices reveal various historical details"--

Author: Patrick O'Sullivan
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574090949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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The sinking of the Lusitania is one of the most famous naval disasters in history.

Author: Charles Emelius Lauriat
Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: J. Kent Layton
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9781803995236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Before Titanic, there was Lusitania... This unprecedented two-volume set will bring Lusitania's history to life as never before

Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: Diana Preston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802713750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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An account of the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania offers a portrait of early twentieth-century maritime history and the terrible impact of the disaster on the course of World War I.

Author: Dean Smart
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748745135
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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A resource pack providing coverage of the modern world GCSE history syllabus requirements for AQA/NEAB schools and students. One of a series, it contains units of work; key issues analysis; key issues question and answer; model answer and answer constructor. It covers the following core content areas: the lead up to World War 1; the Western Front; the Home front 1914-1918; the lead up to World War I; World War II, The Home Front 1939-1945; the lead up to the Cold War; the Nuclear Age 1945-1963.

Author: William Joseph Reader
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719023958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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