[PDF] The Last Voyage Of The Lusitania eBook

Author : Adolph A. Hoehling
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 1996
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1568330782

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The terrifying story of the British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915.

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0553446754

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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 : Diana Preston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802713750

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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 : A. A. Hoehling
Publisher : Madison Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 1996-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1461700043

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Chronicles one of the greatest sea tragedies of our time.

Author : Greg King
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1250194555

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In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner, including never-before-seen photos of the wreck today. In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. Unlike the tragedy of the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster of the modern age. Audiences witnessed everything that ensued after the unthinkable collision of two modern vessels equipped with radar: perilous hours of uncertainty; the heroic rescue of passengers; and the final gasp as the pride of the Italian fleet slipped beneath the Atlantic, taking some fifty lives with her. Her loss signaled the end of the golden age of ocean liner travel. Now, Greg King and Penny Wilson offer a fresh look at this legendary liner and her tragic fate. Andrea Doria represented the romance of travel, the possibility of new lives in the new world, and the glamour of 1950s art, culture, and life. Set against a glorious backdrop of celebrity and La Dolce Vita, Andrea Doria's last voyage comes vividly to life in a narrative tightly focused on her passengers – Cary Grant's wife; Philadelphia's flamboyant mayor; the heiress to the Marshall Field fortune; and many brave Italian emigrants – who found themselves plunged into a desperate struggle to survive. The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria follows the effect this trauma had on their lives, and brings the story up-to-date with the latest expeditions to the wreck. Drawing on in-depth research, interviews with survivors, and never-before-seen photos of the wreck as it is today, The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria is a vibrant story of fatal errors, shattered lives, and the triumph of the human spirit.

Author : Robert D. Ballard
Publisher : New York : Warner Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780446518512

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Explores the controversies surrounding the sinking of the cruise ship in 1915

Author : Charles Lauriat
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752410442

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Reproduction of the original: The Lusitania’s Last Voyage by Charles Lauriat

Author : Patrick O'Sullivan
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574090949

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