Dead Wake
The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Dead Wake
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Scott Brick
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Scott Brick
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Erik Larson
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“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
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"As events escalate toward the momentous sinking of the British passenger liner LUSITANIA by a German U-boat during WWI, this comprehensive history reads almost like a novel, and that's exactly how Scott Brick narrates it. He adds emphasis where needed, goes quieter when appropriate, and varies his pacing effectively. His narration doesn't get in the way of the writing--it enhances it." (AudioFile)
The work, straightforwardly, is structured chronologically but the reader’s interest is sustained by passing from one locale to another from one chapter to the next: on the ship, in the U boat, in MI5’s ‘Room 40’, at the White House, etc. It is enlivened with multiple details: on the passengers, what they wrote, their careers and families; on the ship and the U boat captains’ lives; on Woodrow Wilson’s endeavours; on political and military consequences; etc.
Two major factors contribute to making this book just remarkable:
• the astounding extent and quality of the author’s research that touches a wide range of facets, from individual passengers’ detailed backgrounds (including what they bought in New York before embarking!) to the actions of British secret agents documented in nonpublished memoirs;
• the brilliant writing which surprisingly succeeds in instilling suspense even though any reader knows how the plot will unfold in the end.
In the audio version, narration is lively but by no means theatrical, as the nature of the book warrants.
This work is warmly recommended to anyone interested in history and human nature.
Outstanding!
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