![]() ![]() ![]() I have read several of his books and can’t wait to read his others. You can tell that he takes his time doing his research. Erik Lason is one of my favorite nonfiction history writers. Once I got about fifty pages into the book I could not put it down. Erik Laron does a great job weaving in facts about President Wilson, Winston Churchill, and more into the story. The sinking of the Lusitania changed WWI and how Americans viewed it. You follow the stories of the wealthy Americans and Europeans who were on the Lusitania, along with the crew and people that worked both on the Lusitania and the U-boat that torpedoed it. Dead Wake by Erik Larson is a non-fiction account of the German Unterseeboot, or U-boat, sinking of Lusitania, a British merchant vessel belonging to Cunard. Martin Rubin reviews Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson and Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age, by Greg King and Penny Wilson. Instead, a German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania, killing over one thousand people.Įrik Larson makes the story come alive. The passengers and crew set sail expecting to be at sea for just a few days. At the time Germany had declared the waters around Britain a warzone. In May of 1915, the Lusitania, a luxury ocean liner, set sail from New York to Liverpool. Dead Wake by Erik Larson was p ublished in 2015. ![]()
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