Dead Wake

The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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Dead Wake

Auteur(s): Erik Larson

Narrateur(s): Scott Brick

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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

Erik LarsonScott BrickRandom House Audio

Amériques

Forces armées

Guerres et conflits

Militaire

Moderne

XXe siècle

Sous-marin

Guerre

U-Boat

Royaume-Uni

Boston

Amériques Forces armées Guerres et conflits Militaire Moderne XXe siècle Sous-marin Guerre U-Boat Royaume-Uni Boston

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I love the way this man writes, and always learn so much during the reading. This book brings so many characters to life; the passengers are no longer just names and a statistic, but I'm now aware of them as living, breathing people and whose lives I had a brief glimpse into, were cut so tragically short. I also found the details of the interaction and communication between the ship, Cunard Lines and the government, most interesting - who blamed whom, what should or shouldn't have been done, etc. I highly recommend this book. #Audible1