But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”-the fastest liner then in service-and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. Other books by Erik Lason reviewed on this blog: It was a great pick for Larson and another winner by him for sure.ĭead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
To his credit, the Titanic is a bit overdone and the Lusitania is a more unexplored ship with much more political sway.
My love for the Titanic and my adoration for Erik Larson almost overlapped.
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