Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
by Diana Preston
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- Hardcover
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- 0802713750
- ISBN 13
- 9780802713759
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On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a torpedo fired from the German submarine U-20, she exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred people, more than half of the passengers and crew. Cold-blooded, deliberate, and unprecedented in the annals of war, the sinking of the Lusitania shocked the world. It also jolted the United States out of its neutrality 128 Americans were among the dead and hastened the nation's entry into World War I. In her account of this enormous and controversial tragedy, Diana Preston recalls both a pivotal moment in history and a remarkable human drama. The story of the Lusitania is a window on the maritime world of the early twentieth century: the heyday of the luxury liner, the first days of the modern submarine, and the climax of the decades-long German-British rivalry for supremacy of the Atlantic. It is a criticalchapter in the progress of World War I and in the political biographies of Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Kaiser Wilhelm II, andFirst Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. Above all, it is the story of the passengers and crew on that fateful voyage a story of terror and cowardice, of self-sacrifice and heroism, of death and miraculous survival.
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- Title
- Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
- Author
- Diana Preston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0802713750
- ISBN 13
- 9780802713759
- Publisher
- Walker Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- May 2002
- Pages
- 544
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