Dead Wake

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇó From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania ΓÇ£Both terrifying and enthralling.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöEntertainment Weekly ΓÇ£Thrilling,dramatic and powerful.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöNPR ΓÇ£Thoroughly engrossing.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöGeorge R.R. Martin On May 11915with WWI entering its tenth montha luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New Yorkbound for Liverpoolcarrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at easeeven though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For monthsGerman U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the eraΓÇÖs great transatlantic ΓÇ£GreyhoundsΓÇ¥ΓÇöthe fastest liner then in serviceΓÇöand her captainWilliam Thomas Turnerplaced tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germanyhoweverwas determined to change the rules of the gameand Walther Schwiegerthe captain of Unterseeboot-20was happy to oblige. Meanwhilean ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked SchwiegerΓÇÖs U-boatbut told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpoolan array of forces both grand and achingly smallΓÇöhubrisa chance foga closely guarded secretand moreΓÇöall converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but donΓÇÖtand Erik Larson tells it thrillinglyswitching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspenseDead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative charactersfrom famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilsona man lost to griefdreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and importantDead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award ΓÇó One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington PostSt. Louis Post-DispatchMiami HeraldLibrary JournalKirkus ReviewsLibraryReadsIndigo