{"product_id":"dead-wake-the-last-crossing-of-the-lusitania-9780307408877","title":"Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania","description":"\u003cp\u003e#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Both terrifying and enthralling.\"--Entertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.\"--NPR\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Thoroughly engrossing.\"--George R.R. Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGermany, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGripping 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42979168354470,"sku":"9780307408877","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780307408877.jpg?v=1656110557","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-wake-the-last-crossing-of-the-lusitania-9780307408877","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}