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Author : Adolph A. Hoehling,Mary Hoehling
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9781568330785
The terrifying story of the British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915.
Author : Charles Emelius Jr. Lauriat
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547622048
"The Lusitania's Last Voyage: Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine" by Charles Emelius Jr. Lauriat is a gripping firsthand account of a tragic moment in maritime history. Lauriat's narrative provides readers with an intimate and harrowing perspective on the sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania during World War I. This book is a powerful testament to the courage and resilience of the passengers and crew, as well as a reminder of the human cost of war. It is a compelling read for those interested in historical accounts of maritime disasters and the impact of global conflicts on civilian lives.
Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Crown
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553446753
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, 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 surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—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. 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. 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. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo
Author : Charles Lauriat
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752434699
Reproduction of the original: The Lusitania’s Last Voyage by Charles Lauriat
Author : A. A. Hoehling,Mary Hoehling
Publisher : Madison Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461700043
Chronicles one of the greatest sea tragedies of our time.
Author : Charles E. LAURIAT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798565721362
The torpedoing of the Lusitania was a pivotal moment in the course of the First World War as it triggered the entry of the United States into the war. But this incident is often overshadowed by the larger historical theatre of the Great War.Charles E. Lauriant, Jr was a passenger on the fateful final voyage of the Lusitania and survived to tell the tale. Few accounts concentrate on the actual event itself, but this memoir changes that perception as it is a first hand account from a survivor of the incident. Published in 1915, the same year as the sinking, this account describes the days on the ship before and during the attack and clearly depicts the horrors of war at sea. This edition has a new introduction which looks at the importance of the sinking of the Lusitania.Charles E. Lauriant, Jr was a Bostonian bookseller who became a hero when escaping the Lusitania. Read his harrowing account and important historical document now.This is another exciting book from Undersea Publishing, bringing the best in classic and new stories of the sea.
Author : Jr Charles E. Lauriat
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:4064066440251
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."
Author : Adolph A. Hoehling,Mary Hoehling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:752704142
Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781632860859
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 and hastened the nation's entry into World War I. In her riveting 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. 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.
Author : Greg King,Penny Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250194558
In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner, including never-before-seen photos of the wreck today. In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. Unlike the tragedy of the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster of the modern age. Audiences witnessed everything that ensued after the unthinkable collision of two modern vessels equipped with radar: perilous hours of uncertainty; the heroic rescue of passengers; and the final gasp as the pride of the Italian fleet slipped beneath the Atlantic, taking some fifty lives with her. Her loss signaled the end of the golden age of ocean liner travel. Now, Greg King and Penny Wilson offer a fresh look at this legendary liner and her tragic fate. Andrea Doria represented the romance of travel, the possibility of new lives in the new world, and the glamour of 1950s art, culture, and life. Set against a glorious backdrop of celebrity and La Dolce Vita, Andrea Doria's last voyage comes vividly to life in a narrative tightly focused on her passengers – Cary Grant's wife; Philadelphia's flamboyant mayor; the heiress to the Marshall Field fortune; and many brave Italian emigrants – who found themselves plunged into a desperate struggle to survive. The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria follows the effect this trauma had on their lives, and brings the story up-to-date with the latest expeditions to the wreck. Drawing on in-depth research, interviews with survivors, and never-before-seen photos of the wreck as it is today, The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria is a vibrant story of fatal errors, shattered lives, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Author : Leonard Carpenter
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633536562
A World War I spy thriller from an author who puts “electrifying action into everything he writes” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times–bestselling author). Alma Brady is on the run from a New York mob boss. Desperate to escape Big Jim Hogan and his murderous gang, she joins a group of nurses bound for the Great War in Europe. Their ship is the Lusitania, the most celebrated luxury liner of 1915, with a passenger list of Broadway and Continental celebrities—who do not realize they are headed for certain doom. Aboard the ship she meets Matthew Vane, a war correspondent who wants to find out what secret weapons may be hidden in the Lusitania cargo hold. During the one-week voyage, these characters will be drawn into romance, intrigue and murder, in an epic historical thriller that takes us above and below decks, into the German U-boat lurking nearby, and to the capitals and battlefields of Europe. “Anyone who thrilled to the Titanic film will love this book.” —Sandra Nielsen
Author : David Ramsay
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473860230
An account of one of the greatest maritime disasters in history—the Lusitania’s proud service, its sinking by a German U-Boat, and the tragic aftermath. When the RMS Lusitania entered service in 1907, she was the pride of the Cunard fleet. The first transatlantic express liner powered by marine turbines, she had a top speed of twenty-five knots and could make the Liverpool-New York crossing in five days, restoring British supremacy along the key North Atlantic route. All this ended during World War I, on 7 May 1915, when she was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank eighteen minutes later, taking with her the lives of the 1,198 passengers and crew. In this well-researched book, the author concentrates not just on the disaster but its consequences, including the political recriminations and the governmental inquiry. The loss of American citizens was a major reason why the United States entered the War. Fully-illustrated with rare historical photographs, this is a fascinating study of a major shipping catastrophe with profound repercussions that would have an effect not just on maritime law, but on the future of the world.
Author : Robert D. Ballard,Spencer Dunmore
Publisher : New York : Warner Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0446518514
Explores the controversies surrounding the sinking of the cruise ship in 1915
Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1551926423
Three years after the tragic sinking of the Titanic, another luxury liner went to a watery grave beneath the icy depths of the North Atlantic. The sinking of the Lusitania, torpedoed by a German U-boat in a sneak attack off the coast of Ireland, was one of the most pivotal and universally condemned acts of World War I. Diana Preston chronicles the shipboard experiences of three children who were on that fateful voyage. Eleven-year-old Frank Hook, a third-class passenger, was moving to England with his father and older sister. Twelve-year-old Avis Dolphin, a second-class passenger, was being sent to an English boarding school with a chaperone. And five-month-old Audrey Pearl was traveling in luxurious first class with her parents, three siblings, and two nannies. From different walks of life and varied circumstances, these three children shared a common bond-they all survived one of the most disastrous shipwrecks in history. Their stories, taken from firsthand accounts, personal interviews, and historical documents, provide a riveting look at one of the most tragic and significant events of World War I.
Author : Charles E. Lauriat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510708792
A first-hand account of the Lusitania’s doomed final voyage. On May 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania as it passed the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland on its way to Liverpool, England. This act of war had a terrible toll—of the 1,962 passengers and crew, 1,191 lost their lives, many of them women and children. One of the passengers on the ship was Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., a rare book dealer who travelled regularly to London for business. When the German embassy placed a warning in New York papers warning that any ships of Great Britain and her allies would be considered fair targets, Lauriat, along with most of others, dismissed the notion that a civilian liner would actually be attacked. Lauriat’s memoir of the journey recreates the torpedo attack—describing the listing ship as it filled with water and people scrambled for lifeboats, too often finding them inaccessible or unusable—and details the rescue that came too late for most of his fellow passengers. Lauriat then points out the many faults of the official inquiry, telling the true story of that tragic day. With a new foreword and photos of the ship, The Lusitania’s Last Voyage is a gripping account of one of history’s greatest naval disasters. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.