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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson | unofficial Summary & Analysis

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson | unofficial Summary & Analysis

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Disclaimer: This is an independent and unofficial summary and analysis of the original book Dead Wake by Erik Larson. Your are encouraged to purchase the original book, before reading this book to enhance your reading experience.

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson is an expansive novel that offers a new world view of the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7th, 1915. The novel follows a story line written by the author.
The story is written following the accounts of different people on board the ship. You will see perspectives from the Naval Captain, passengers on the ship, as well as the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.
May 1st 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, bound for Liverpool from Manhattan sank just a couple of hours off the coast of Liverpool taking within its shrouds 1198 passengers out of 1200 aboard. This one incident shocked the world who looked at the perpetrators, the Germans, with contempt.
Germans declared the seas around Britain as a war zone and the passengers were warned of the imminent attack should their ship breach into these waters. Ignoring the threats, her captain William Thomas Turner placed his trust in the hands of limitations of warfare in terms of attacking civilian ships. With one act of audacity, the rules of the game changed and Walther Schweiger, captain of U-boat had no qualms in obliging!
In this eBook, we bring to you one of the most devastating misfortunes in First World War that paved the road for America to enter the battle it had been avoiding. Erik Larson has yet again proved his prowess as a writer by weaving true incidents into a story so that the readers can get a peek at behind the scene action during First World War and the discussions behind closed doors when a ship was sinking, taking with it its passengers and as many as 95 children!
As Lusitania began its voyage across the Transatlantic on May 1st 1915, little did she know about the misfortune that the fate had in store for her. As 2015 will mark its centennial, it is the right time to recount the story that brought the world to a standstill as almost 1200 passengers were devoured by hungry oceans.
Sailing from New York on that fateful day, Lusitania was an epitome of excessive pride and creativity that made her the most luxurious and fastest passenger ship to carry civilians back in the day.
When the ship left its harbours, the passengers seemed anything but perturbed by the warning made by Germans in the city newspapers that all the passengers aboard British ships must “travel at their own risk”. While the warning was not aimed at a vessel in particular, it was anybody’s guess that it was meant for Lusitania. The mere thought seemed preposterous that a German u-boat will attack a passenger ship as huge and prestigious as Lusitania. Additionally, Cunard’s official response restored the faith in safety of the vessel as they dismissed the warning by making a statement that no German war vessel can cause any damage to Lusitania, the safest ship on the sea. But Walther Schweiger, captain of German U-boat had a different sentiment!
This work of non-fiction brings some of the most significant characters from the history that had their own individual roles to play as the tragedy unfolded to the stunned world. Captained by William Thomas Turner, he may take the safety of passengers religiously but in his heart they were all “bloody monkeys”. The book also highlights the failure of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, to convey the potent naval intelligence that may have jeopardised his spy program’s super secrecy but could have also saved so many innocent lives.
Language
English
Pages
57
Format
Kindle Edition

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson | unofficial Summary & Analysis

SuperRead Books
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Amazon #1 Best seller

Disclaimer: This is an independent and unofficial summary and analysis of the original book Dead Wake by Erik Larson. Your are encouraged to purchase the original book, before reading this book to enhance your reading experience.

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson is an expansive novel that offers a new world view of the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7th, 1915. The novel follows a story line written by the author.
The story is written following the accounts of different people on board the ship. You will see perspectives from the Naval Captain, passengers on the ship, as well as the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson.
May 1st 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, bound for Liverpool from Manhattan sank just a couple of hours off the coast of Liverpool taking within its shrouds 1198 passengers out of 1200 aboard. This one incident shocked the world who looked at the perpetrators, the Germans, with contempt.
Germans declared the seas around Britain as a war zone and the passengers were warned of the imminent attack should their ship breach into these waters. Ignoring the threats, her captain William Thomas Turner placed his trust in the hands of limitations of warfare in terms of attacking civilian ships. With one act of audacity, the rules of the game changed and Walther Schweiger, captain of U-boat had no qualms in obliging!
In this eBook, we bring to you one of the most devastating misfortunes in First World War that paved the road for America to enter the battle it had been avoiding. Erik Larson has yet again proved his prowess as a writer by weaving true incidents into a story so that the readers can get a peek at behind the scene action during First World War and the discussions behind closed doors when a ship was sinking, taking with it its passengers and as many as 95 children!
As Lusitania began its voyage across the Transatlantic on May 1st 1915, little did she know about the misfortune that the fate had in store for her. As 2015 will mark its centennial, it is the right time to recount the story that brought the world to a standstill as almost 1200 passengers were devoured by hungry oceans.
Sailing from New York on that fateful day, Lusitania was an epitome of excessive pride and creativity that made her the most luxurious and fastest passenger ship to carry civilians back in the day.
When the ship left its harbours, the passengers seemed anything but perturbed by the warning made by Germans in the city newspapers that all the passengers aboard British ships must “travel at their own risk”. While the warning was not aimed at a vessel in particular, it was anybody’s guess that it was meant for Lusitania. The mere thought seemed preposterous that a German u-boat will attack a passenger ship as huge and prestigious as Lusitania. Additionally, Cunard’s official response restored the faith in safety of the vessel as they dismissed the warning by making a statement that no German war vessel can cause any damage to Lusitania, the safest ship on the sea. But Walther Schweiger, captain of German U-boat had a different sentiment!
This work of non-fiction brings some of the most significant characters from the history that had their own individual roles to play as the tragedy unfolded to the stunned world. Captained by William Thomas Turner, he may take the safety of passengers religiously but in his heart they were all “bloody monkeys”. The book also highlights the failure of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, to convey the potent naval intelligence that may have jeopardised his spy program’s super secrecy but could have also saved so many innocent lives.
Language
English
Pages
57
Format
Kindle Edition

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