![]() Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war. Erik Larson - Best-selling Author of Dead Wake Coming in Paperback 2/15/22 The Splendid and the Vile Available in paperback 2/15/22 On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. ![]() Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, including the US president Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. 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. Meanwhile, an ultrasecret British intelligence unit were tracking Schwieger's U-boat.but told no one.Īs U-20 and the Lusitania made their way towards Liverpool, forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret and more - converged to produce one of the great disasters of 20th-century history. But Germany was intent on changing the rules, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. He also knew that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. ![]() For months its submarines had brought terror to the North Atlantic.īut the Lusitania's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith in the gentlemanly terms of warfare that had, for a century, kept civilian ships safe from attack. ![]() Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. ![]() On, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. ![]()
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