Larson is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including In the Garden of Beasts, which he discussed on our show in 2013. Today’s guest, Erik Larson, unravels the many forces that led to this disaster in his book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
How this could happen, despite a wealth of intelligence pinpointing the whereabouts of an enemy submarine, has been the topic of speculation and discussion for a century. The ship sank to the ocean floor in just 18 minutes, taking with her 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Just six days later, on calm seas, the Lusitania was hit by a single torpedo. Turner’s preparations to meet the disaster were countered by several instances of bad. Although the great liner would pass through waters patrolled by German U-boats off the coast of Britain, few worried about the dangers. As Larson tells it, after the torpedo hit, only six of the life boats got away before the Lusitania sank.
World War I was entering its 10 th month, but civilian ships and their passengers were widely considered off-limits from enemy assault. The luxurious British ship was bound for Liverpool, England, more than 3,000 miles away. Larson’s research has led him to believe that the British intelligence unit in Room 40 orchestrated a cover-up for the ship’s sinking by blaming it on the Lusitania ’s captain in order to preserve its espionage program. From the number-one New York Times best-selling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. All Rights Reserved.On May 1 st, 1915, crowds lined New York’s harbor to bid farewell to nearly 2,000 family, friends and crew aboard the world’s fastest civilian liner - the Lusitania. But as the authors of two highly informed, compellingly written studies of Lusitania show us, there was a great deal more to the story than its heart-wrenching tragedy.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania is a 2015 New York Times non-fiction bestseller written by author Erik Larson. In the United Kingdom, the death of hundreds of British passengers-not to mention the sinking of one of Britain’s most luxurious vessels-shocked even a nation hardened by the daily carnage of the battlefield. For Americans eager to join the war against Germany, the loss of 128 out of 139 of their fellow citizens onboard-amid a shocking overall death toll of 1,198-was a strong argument for their cause.
The place is catalogued as Civil by the U.S. On both sides of the Atlantic, the cry “Remember the Lusitania” rang out after the British passenger liner was torpedoed off the southeast coast of Ireland on a voyage from New York to Liverpool in May 1915. The Township of Fawn Creek is located in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States. Norman Wilkinson’s painting of the sinking of Lusitania by a German U-boat first appeared in the Illustrated London News a week later.
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