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The Lusitania Disaster
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Author : Thomas Andrew Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Lusitania Disaster written by Thomas Andrew Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
A detailed account of the sensational U-boat sinking of the British passenger liner in 1915, exploring background causes and contexts, questions of cargo, conspiracy, and controversy, and the subsequent legends and stories.
Wilful Murder The Sinking Of The Lusitania
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Author : Diana Preston
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-25
Wilful Murder The Sinking Of The Lusitania written by Diana Preston and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-25 with History categories.
On May 7th, 1915 a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic sank with the loss of 1200 lives. On board were some world-famous figures, including multimillionaire Alfred Vanderbilt. But this wasn't the Titanic and there was no iceberg. The liner was the Lusitania and it was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Wilful Murder is the hugely compelling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. The first book to look at the events in their full historical context, it is also the first to place the human dimension at its heart. Using first-hand accounts of the tragedy Diana Preston brings the characters to life, recreating the splendour of the liner as it set sail and the horror of its final moments. Using British, American and German research material she answers many of the unanswered and controversial questions surrounding the Lusitania: why didn't Cunard listen to warnings that the ship would be a target of the Germans? Was the Lusitania sacrificed to bring the Americans into the War? What was really in the Lusitania's hold? Was she armed? Had Cunard's offices been infiltrated by German agents? And did the Kaiser's decision to cease unrestricted U-boat warfare in response to international outrage expressed after the sinking effectively change the outcome of the First World War? Highly readable, highly researched Wilful Murder casts dramatic new light on one of the world's most famous maritime disasters.
The Sinking Of The Lusitania
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Author : Patrick O'Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Release Date : 2014-09-10
The Sinking Of The Lusitania written by Patrick O'Sullivan and has been published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with History categories.
In May 1915, the RMS Lusitania, then the world's fastest liner, departed from New York. Seven days later she was torpedoed off the Irish coast with the loss of 1,198 lives. Suspected by the Germans of carrying clandestine munitions to Britain, the great ship steamed into a fatal encounter with the German submarine U-20. One of the largest naval disasters in history, it was a factor in bringing America into the First World War. Patrick O'Sullivan presents the complete story of the Lusitania a. air, exploring the cover-ups and the theories on what caused the baffling second explosion. His meticulous research reveals the most compelling explanation to date. This is a fascinating account of one of the First World War's most reported-on atrocities.
The Lusitania S Last Voyage
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Author : Jr Charles E. Lauriat
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08
The Lusitania S Last Voyage written by Jr Charles E. Lauriat and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Nature categories.
The Lusitania's Last Voyage by Jr. Charles E. Lauriat is about a first-person account of the ship the Lusitania's doomed last voyage. Excerpt: "Avert Thy gaze, O God, close tight Thine eyes! Glance down no longer on the ocean foam, Lest Thou behold such horrors as can turn Men's burning hearts to ice, and chill their souls. Keep Thine heart warm and full of charity That Thou mayst yet be able to forgive, And pity feel for those who know not when To pause in deeds of ruthless sacrifice."
The Sinking Of The Lusitania
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-22
The Sinking Of The Lusitania written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes passengers' and crew members' accounts of the attack and sinking *Discusses the debates over whether the Lusitania was smuggling weapons *Includes a bibliography for further reading In 1906, the RMS Lusitania was at the forefront of transatlantic shipping. Briefly the largest ship in the world, the designers and engineers who built the Lusitania aimed for her to represent the height of luxury for passengers while also being the harbinger of a new technological age, replete with revolutionary engines that would allow the gigantic ship to move at speeds that would have been considered impossible just years earlier. Indeed, the highly competitive industry would spur the development of bigger and better ocean liners in the coming years, the most famous being the Titanic. The Lusitania and the Titanic would become the two most famous ships of the early 20th century for tragic reasons, but the circumstances could not have been more different. While the Titanic is still notorious for being the world's best ocean liner at the time of its collision with an iceberg in 1912, the Lusitania's role as a popular ocean liner has been almost completely obscured by the nature of its sinking by a German U-boat in 1915. The Germans aimed to disrupt trade by the Allied forces, but they did not have the naval forces capable of seizing merchant ships and detaining them. Furthermore, the Germans rightly suspected that the British and Americans were using passenger liners and merchant ships to smuggle weaponry across the Atlantic, but since their sole edge in the Atlantic was their fleet of submarines, the Germans had no way of confirming their suspicions, short of sinking a ship and seeing if a detonation on board suggested the presence of munitions and gunpowder. The Germans targeted many British merchant ships, but on May 7, 1915, a German U-boat controversially torpedoed the Lusitania, which sank less than 20 minutes after being struck. The attack killed over 1,000 people, including over 100 American civilians, infuriating the United States. After sinking the ship, the Germans immediately claimed that the boat was carrying "contraband of war" and was in a war zone, charges vehemently denied by the United States and the British. For awhile, the Germans tightened restrictions on their use of U-boats to placate the Americans and seek to keep them out of the war (though the restrictions would not last). The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 was the first major event that shifted public opinion in the United States, and support for joining the war began to rise across the country. Many Americans joined the "Preparedness Movement," which advocated at least preparing for war if not entering the war outright, and though the country would not declare war against Germany for two more years, the sinking of the Lusitania is still cited as a key event that set America on the path toward joining the war. Given the importance of its sinking, debate over whether the Lusitania was carrying explosive munitions has raged on ever since. When the U-boat's torpedo hit the Lusitania and exploded, a second explosion followed the first explosion shortly after, and the Germans cited the second explosion as evidence that the torpedo had hit weapons munitions that ignited the second explosion, a charge that was strongly denied by the British. It would take multiple investigations, declassified documents, and even dives to the wreckage to determine whether the Lusitania was smuggling arms, and whether such munitions triggered the second explosion. The Sinking of the Lusitania chronicles the construction and destruction of one of the most notorious ships of the 20th century. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the sinking of the Lusitania like never before, in no time at all.
The Lusitania S Last Voyage
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Author : Charles Emelius Jr. Lauriat
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-10-29
The Lusitania S Last Voyage written by Charles Emelius Jr. Lauriat and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-29 with Fiction categories.
"The Lusitania's Last Voyage: Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine" by Charles Emelius Jr. Lauriat is a gripping firsthand account of a tragic moment in maritime history. Lauriat's narrative provides readers with an intimate and harrowing perspective on the sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania during World War I. This book is a powerful testament to the courage and resilience of the passengers and crew, as well as a reminder of the human cost of war. It is a compelling read for those interested in historical accounts of maritime disasters and the impact of global conflicts on civilian lives.
Lusitania
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Author : Diana Preston
language : en
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release Date : 2003
Lusitania written by Diana Preston and has been published by Berkley Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. 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. 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. Cold-blooded, deliberate, and unprecedented in the annals of war, the sinking of the Lusitania shocked the world. 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. In her account of this enormous and controversial tragedy, Diana Preston recalls both a pivotal moment in history and a remarkable human drama. 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. It is a criticalchapter in the progress of World War I and in the political biographies of Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Kaiser Wilhelm II, andFirst Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. Above all, it is the story of the passengers and crew on that fateful voyage -- a story of terror and cowardice, of self-sacrifice and heroism, of death and miraculous survival.
Sinking Of The Lusitania
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The Lusitania Sinking
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Author : Anthony Richards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-04
The Lusitania Sinking written by Anthony Richards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-04 with Shipwreck victims categories.
The sinking of the Lusitania is an event that has been predominantly discussed from a political or maritime perspective. For the first time, The Lusitania Sinking tells the story in the emotive framework of a family looking for information on their son's death. On 1 May 1915, the 29-year-old student Preston Prichard embarked as a Second Class passenger on the Lusitania, bound from New York for Liverpool. By 2pm on the afternoon of 7 May, the liner was approaching the coast of Ireland when she was sighted by the German submarine U-20. A single torpedo caused a massive explosion in the Lusitania's hold, and the ship began sank rapidly. Within 20 minutes she disappeared and 1,198 men, women and children, including Preston, died. Uncertain of Preston's fate, his family leaped into action. His brother Mostyn, who lived in Ramsgate, travelled to Queenstown to search morgues but could find nothing. Preston's mother wrote hundreds of letters to survivors to find out more about what might have happened in his last moments. The Lusitania Sinking compiles the responses received. Perhaps sensing his fate, Prichard had put his papers in order before embarking and told a fellow student where to find his will if anything happened to him. During the voyage, he was often seen in the company of Grace French, quoted above. Alice Middleton, who had a crush on him but was too shy to speak to him throughout the entire voyage, remembered that he helped her in reaching the upper decks during the last moments of the sinking: "[The Lusitania] exploded and down came her funnels, so over I jumped. I had a terrible time in the water, 41/2 hours bashing about among the wreckage and dead bodies... It was 10.30 before they landed me at the hospital in an unconscious condition. In fact, they piled me with a boat full of dead and it was only when they were carrying the dead bodies to the Mortuary that they discovered there was still life in me." AUTHOR: Anthony Richards has worked at the Imperial War Museum for more twenty years where he is responsible for the document and sound archives. A qualified archivist he has contributed to many publications and media projects based on personal written testimony of the two world wars, including articles for The Telegraph newspaper, the Royal Mail stamp yearbook, and the ITV series The Great War: The People's Story (2014). He is also the author of The Somme: A Visual History and In Their Own Words; Untold Stories of the First World War (both IWM, 2016) and Documents That Changed History (IWM, 2018).
The Sinking Of The Lusitania
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