Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (signed)

Larson, Erik

ISBN 10: 0804188416 / ISBN 13: 9780804188418

Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 2015

About this Item

Second printing. Signed by author on title page. Lightly bumped on ends of spine, red remainder dot on bottom edge, word on ffep blanked out by black ink, else pages clean and binding firm. Overall, very good plus. DJ lightly creased on ends of spine and ends of flap folds, rubbed on ends of flap folds, "Signed Copy" sticker and fingerprints on front, else very good minus.

Seller Inventory # 006946

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (signed)
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804188416
• ISBN 13: 9780804188418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

On May 1, 1915, with World War I 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. 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 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.

Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game. As the Lusitania made her 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. Gripping and important, "Dead Wake" captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history.