![]() ![]() ![]() He knows how to tell a good story without over-sensationalizing events. Larson is a popular historian and journalist who has published a series of nonfiction texts over the past twenty-four years on topics that often involve violent events in the past. This contributed to flawed design specifications for the ship and one of the theories for its destruction: the Germans thought it was an armed vessel. While White Star could afford to build the latter on its own, Cunard had to seek loans and promises from the British Admiralty for the construction of the Lusitania. The Lusitania went into service five years before the Titanic and was smaller, but because they sank only three years apart, comparisons are regularly made between these two luxury liners. Dead Wake, by Erik Larson, is one of the most recent and well researched. ![]() Since its sinking over a century ago, the Lusitania has become fodder for many conspiracy theories and a like number of published works. Reviewed by Edmund Potter (Mary Baldwin College) Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. ![]()
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