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Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania / Erik Larson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Non-Fiction Audio CDs Larson Dead
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Erik, 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lusitania (Steamship).
- World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, German.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Shipping--Government policy--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Shipping.
- Genre:
- Audiobooks
- Physical Description:
- 11 audio discs (approx. 13 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Books on Tape : Random House Audio, [2015]
- System Details:
- digital optical
- audio file CD audio
- Summary:
- "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"-- provided by publisher.
- Participant:
- Read by Scott Brick.
- Notes:
- Unabridged.
- Compact disc.
- Athenaeum copy: Subtitle from container.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780553551648 (Books on Tape) :
- 0553551647 (Books on Tape)
- 9780553551624 (Random House Audio) :
- 0553551620 (Random House Audio)
- OCLC:
- 898179836
- Publisher Number:
- 9780553551624
- RHA 4822 Books on Tape/Random House Audio
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