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Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
Greg King, Penny Wilson
St. Martin's Press
March 2015
On Sale: February 24, 2015
ISBN: 1250052548
EAN: 9781250052544
Kindle: B00NKBKB8C
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Non-Fiction History
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. 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. Now,
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.
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