For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. detailed conversational endnotes are an added bonus.The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. Larson's irresistibly pacey narrative moves between the various scenes of action, conjuring them up in vivid detail.the sources are remarkable. With practised skill Larson confronts the emotional pathos of wartime tragedy. James Delingpole * MAIL ON SUNDAY *Ī fascinating, well-researched read. It may have happened 100 years ago, but this masterpiece made it feel like yesterday. You feel this way because Larson makes you care.Thanks to Larson's vivid narrative, you are there with those passengers in the thick of it. Though you know it's going to happen, you keep praying that it won't, right up until the moment when the torpedo strikes. Gripping, superbly well-researched.he ratchets up the tension as the doomed ship speeds towards the inevitable. Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9780552779340 Number of pages: 448 Weight: 304 g Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 27 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war. Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, including the US President Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.
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. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way towards Liverpool, forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely-guarded secret and more - converged to produce one of the great disasters of 20th century history. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit were tracking Schwieger's U-boat.but told no one. But Germany was intent on changing the rules, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. He also knew that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. For months, its submarines had brought terror to the North Atlantic.īut the Lusitania's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith in the gentlemanly terms of warfare that had, for a century, kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. On, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool.
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