Summary: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Dead Wake tells the story of one of the greatest and most memorable cruise ships in history aside from the Titanic, its Cunard rival Lusitania.

The ship was called “magnificent”, consuming as much as o…

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