03797cam a2200385 4500 523692473 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780553551655 0553551655 f70d6e74-b353-472a-b97c-91f70a08c1f0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1771251 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Larson, Erik. Dead Wake [Libby] : The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 359MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 359MB. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>#1 New York Times Bestseller<br /> <br /> From the&#160;bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the <i>Lusitania</i></b><br /> <br /> On 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 <i>Lusitania</i> 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.&#160;<br /> <br /> Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of <i>Unterseeboot</i>-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 <i>Lusitania</i> 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.<br /> <br /> 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 while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, <i>Dead Wake</i> 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.&#160;<br /> <br /> Gripping and important, <i>Dead Wake</i> captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Media Type: Audiobook. Best Audio Books. Audie Award Nominee. Notable Books for Adults. The New York Times Best Seller List. Earphones Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Brick, Scott. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1771251-DeadWake.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F70D6E74-B353-472A-B97C-91F70A08C1F0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1771251-DeadWake.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F70D6E74-B353-472A-B97C-91F70A08C1F0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)