The Tragedy Of The Lusitania
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The Tragedy Of The Lusitania
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Author : Frederick D Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-03
The Tragedy Of The Lusitania written by Frederick D Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-03 with categories.
On May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans. This is a vivid and graphic description of the torpedoing of the Lusitania, and the hear trending account of the panic stricken men, women and children, who were separated from their loved ones to face death, and were hurled into eternity without warning.
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Author : Frederick D. Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06-29
The Tragedy Of The Lusitania written by Frederick D. Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with categories.
Hardcover reprint of the original 1915 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Ellis, Frederick D. The Tragedy of The Lusitania; Embracing Authentic Stories By The Survivors And Eye-Witnesses of The Disaster, Including Atrocities On Land And Sea, In The Air, Etc. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Ellis, Frederick D. The Tragedy of The Lusitania; Embracing Authentic Stories By The Survivors And Eye-Witnesses of The Disaster, Including Atrocities On Land And Sea, In The Air, Etc, . Philadelphia, Pa.: National Publishing Co., 1915. Subject: Lusitania Steamship
The Tragedy Of The Lusitania
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Author : Frederick D. Ellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-05
The Tragedy Of The Lusitania written by Frederick D. Ellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-05 with History categories.
Excerpt from The Tragedy of the Lusitania: Embracing Authentic Stories by the Survivors and Eye-Witnesses of the Disaster, Including Atrocities on Land and Sea, in the Air, Etc To All human beings of normal mentality it must have seemed that the destruction of the Lusitania marked the apex of horror. There is, indeed nothing in modern history - nothing, at least, since the Black Hole of Calcutta, and some of the indescribable atrocities of Kurdish fanatics - to supply the mind with a vantage ground from which to measure the causeless and profitless savagery of this black deed of murder. It is to be conceded that during war stern measures are justified against an enemy's forces; that this ship, carrying contraband, was subject to capture, and, in certain contingencies, to destruction. Yet the facts remain untouched in all their diabolical barbarity - that an unarmed vessel laden with nearly 2,000 noncombatants was attacked without an instant's warning; that not even a minute's grace was allowed for the removal of the passengers or crew; that the murderous thrust was given with full knowledge that it meant the slaughter of hundreds of women and children, and that this butchery was the deliberately planned act of a government which but recently was accepted as an exemplar of national sanity and humane civilization. The world was soon to learn, however, that the premeditated act did not sound the depths of soulless ferocity of which the dehumanized mind of man is capable. There has been manifested something more revolting than the sickening murder of 1,150 helpless men and women and children, and that is the frightful chorus of jubilation which burst from German throats to greet the news of massacre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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.
Lusitania
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Author : Senan Molony
language : en
Publisher: Mercier Press
Release Date : 2004
Lusitania written by Senan Molony and has been published by Mercier Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
"The sinking of the Lusitania, one of the most famous incidents in world history, occurred on 7 May 1915, off the Irish coast. Lusitania, an Irish Tragedy is the first book to pick up the narrative from the point of the sinking to tell the stories which surround this historic event." "The book highlights for the first time the heroic rescue work undertaken by Irish fishermen and lifeboats; it tells the tales of those who tended the dead and succoured the living, those who served on the coroner's jury, and those who worked as bodyhunters scouring the coast in response to rewards." "There is much more, including the stories of the numerous Irish passengers and crew who were aboard the doomed vessel. Here too is a thorough guide to the rich legacy of Lusitania graves in Ireland, and comprehensive information on the memorial, discovery, salvage and protection efforts carried out in the years since."--BOOK JACKET.
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.
Lusitania
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Author : Greg King
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Lusitania written by Greg King and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with History categories.
On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I. Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes – a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her – and her gilded passengers – to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. Was she carrying munitions that exploded? Did Winston Churchill engineer a conspiracy that doomed the liner? Lost amid these tangled skeins is the romantic, vibrant, and finally heartrending tale of the passengers who sailed aboard her. Lives, relationships, and marriages ended in the icy waters off the Irish Sea; those who survived were left haunted and plagued with guilt. Now, authors Greg King and Penny Wilson resurrect this lost, glittering world to show the golden age of travel and illuminate the most prominent of Lusitania's passengers. Rarely was an era so glamorous; rarely was a ship so magnificent; and rarely was the human element of tragedy so quickly lost to diplomatic maneuvers and militaristic threats.
Lusitania
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Author : Jennifer Draskau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Lusitania written by Jennifer Draskau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Shipwrecks categories.
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 Lusitania Tragedy
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Author : Daniel Taylor Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12-02
The Lusitania Tragedy written by Daniel Taylor Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with categories.
The RMS Lusitania passenger liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank 11 miles off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. 1,198 civilian lives were lost and 761 lived. Some survivors never told their stories but others in various ways spoke of their experiences. Daniel Taylor Brown was one of those who survived and openly spoke out. He boldly chronicles his story and the accounts of some who also lived, but continues to tell of others who helplessly died during the attack and aftermath. The reader cannot help but be transported to that time and place of great terror, loss and heroism. You will not only hear of a man s will to live and escape a rapidly sinking ship against extreme odds, but with many souls still on board he watched the doomed Lusitania sink. It goes on with the stabbing pain and helplessness of witnessing those in the water die. The overwhelming trauma continued for all in the life boats while they persevered defenselessly as a sea of death surrounded them. With passion Daniel Brown relates this shocking story to us. In 1916 after his return to his residence at the National Soldiers Home in Southern California, Mr. Brown was invited to speak publically. His story is presented here with a style of writing that conveys not only his heart of grief for all who suffered and died, but of an accountability for those who were the perpetrators."