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02514aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 1E27146C69C011E6873D46CEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160824010036 008 160519t20162016nyub e b 001 0deng d 020 $a 0307408876 (paperback)9781101931721 020 $a 9780307408877 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)949913425 040 $a SINLB $b eng $e rda $c SINLB $d YJL $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 100 1 $a Larson, Erik, $d 1954- $e author. 245 10 $a Dead wake : $b the last crossing of the Lusitania / $c Erik Larson. 246 30 $a Last crossing of the Lusitania 250 $a First paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Broadway Books, $c [2016] 300 $a 452 pages : $b maps ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes reader's guide (pages 435-452). 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-418) and index. 505 0 $a Mining suspense -- A word from the captain -- "Bloody monkeys" -- Jump rope and caviar -- Dead wake -- The black soul -- The sea of secrets -- Epilogue: personal effects. 505 0 $a A reader's guide -- A conversation with Erik Larson -- An essay from Erik Larson : "Where Ideas Come From". 520 $a On May 1, 1915, 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. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" 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. He knew, moreover, that his ship -- the fastest then in service -- could outrun any threat. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small -- hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more -- all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. 941 $a 2 952 $l UVAX975 $d 20240215014043.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20171229012006.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1E27146C69C011E6873D46CEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search