Lusitania
Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · February 24, 2015
On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I. Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes – a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century.
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- Who it’s for
- A maritime-history read that pairs catastrophe, culture, and the long fade of an era.
- Genres
- World War I History, Maritime History, Maritime History & Piracy
- Published
- St. Martin's Press, February 24, 2015
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On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I. Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes – a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century.
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When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her – and her gilded passengers – to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. Was she carrying munitions that exploded? Did Winston Churchill engineer a conspiracy that doomed the liner? Lost amid these tangled skeins is the romantic, vibrant, and finally heartrending tale of the passengers who sailed aboard her. Lives, relationships, and marriages ended in the icy waters off the Irish Sea; those who survived were left haunted and plagued with guilt. InLusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age, authors Greg King and Penny Wilson resurrect this lost, glittering world to show the golden age of travel and illuminate the most prominent of Lusitania's passengers. Rarely was an era so glamorous; rarely was a ship so magnificent; and rarely was the human element of tragedy so quickly lost to diplomatic maneuvers and militaristic threats.
History at Sea
A maritime-history read that pairs catastrophe, culture, and the long fade of an era.
Come here for
- Edwardian-era sweep
- maritime history with cultural aftertaste
Expect
- World War I context
- insight over trivia
Where it sits
| World War I History | 90% |
|---|---|
| Maritime History | 36% |
| Maritime History & Piracy | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 20th-Century Britain
- Authors
- Greg King, Penny Wilson
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- February 24, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century Britain