Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania
Bestsellers (Non-fiction), War, World War I
Human-transcribed braille
Summary
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, but the captain of the "Lusitania", William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith… in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. 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. Bestseller. 2015.