Dead Wake

It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.

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  Old Head of Kinsale · Ireland

  Off the Irish coast where Lusitania was torpedoed on May 7, 1915
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  Kinsale · Ireland

  Off the Irish coast near Kinsale where a German U-boat sank the RMS Lusitania in 1915, killing 1,198
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• New York City · United States

  Lusitania's departure port on May 1, 1915