Dead Wake: The Last Cr… Erik Larson Best Price: $1.99 Buy New $6.10 (as of 08:10 EST – Details) 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. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then … Continue reading The Destruction of the Lusitania and the Murder of 1201