Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Eric Larson

For many of us who sat through history class, we think we know that the sinking of the Lusitania was the incident that brought the U.S. into WW1, and we are wrong.

Larson, hooked by the records of that last voyage presents a more expanded, no less disturbing view. He uses a myriad of documentation from Cunard, Woodrow Wilson’s papers, Winston Churchill’s memoirs and the log of U20 the U-boat that sank the Lusitania to bring the events surrounding the sinking to life.