Dead wake : last crossing of the Lusitania / Erik Larson. [sound recording]
Publisher number: 11115620Publication details: [United States] : Random House, Inc., 2015.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 11 sound discs (780 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 9780553551624 :
- Last crossing of the Lusitania
- 940.4
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books on CD | Hanover Public Library Shelves | BonCD 940.4 LARS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 11-disc set | 31906000985896 |
Read by Scott Brick.
On May 1, 1915, 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 anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" 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. He knew, moreover, that his ship--the fastest then in service--could outrun any threat. 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.
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