Book Discussion: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, North Branch

by Erik Larson

As WWI enters its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner sails out of New York, confident that the gentlemanly structures of warfare will protect the civilian vessel even though Germany has declared the seas around Britain a war zone.  This is the story of the Lusitania, the Unterseeboot-20, the glamour of the Progressive Era, the terror of war, and the gripping disaster when they all converged.