It is a critical chapter in the progress of World War I and in the political biographies of Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. The story of the Lusitania is a window on the maritime world of the early twentieth century: the heyday of the luxury liner, the first days of the modern submarine, and the climax of the decades-long German-British rivalry for supremacy of the Atlantic.

In her riveting account of this enormous and controversial tragedy, Diana Preston recalls both a pivotal moment in history and a remarkable human drama. It also jolted the United States out of its neutrality- 128 Americans were among the dead- and hastened the nation's entry into World War I. Cold-blooded, deliberate, and unprecedented in the annals of war, the sinking of the Lusitania shocked the world. Sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a torpedo fired from the German submarine U-20, she exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred people, more than half of the passengers and crew. Lusitania- pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat- became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. OL2098734W Page_number_confidence 96.24 Pages 646 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200925233630 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 773 Scandate 20200923025401 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0552998869 Tts_version 3.On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Urn:lcp:wilfulmurdersink0000pres:epub:9991b84b-1cf0-4cc3-a62d-a425fd59db3a Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier wilfulmurdersink0000pres Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0qs4648w Invoice 2089 Isbn 0552998869ĩ780552998864 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9918 Ocr_module_version 0.0.12 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA19315 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:00:50 Boxid IA1943007 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

Wilful Murder by Diana Preston