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Dead wake the last crossing of the Lusitania

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"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"--

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Bedford Free Library CD 940.45 LAR (Text)
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Bedford Hills Free Library CDBK LARSON NON-FICTION (Text)
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Briarcliff Manor Public Library CD 940.4514 LARSON (Text)
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31036100490082
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Bronxville Public Library CDB 940.4 L (Text)
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31004151413973
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Chappaqua Library CD 940.45 LARSON (Text)
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31005153923778
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Dobbs Ferry Public Library CDBK 940.4514 L (Text)
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31007151186481
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Harrison Public Library CD 940.45 L (Text)
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31010100707837
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Hendrick Hudson Free Library CDBK 940.45 L (Text)
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31016151507588
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Irvington Public Library CD 940.451 L (Text)
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31012154235764
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John C. Hart Memorial Library CDBK 940.451 L (Text)
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31030154332548
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