{"product_id":"dead-wake-book-erik-larson-9780307408877","title":"Dead Wake","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the \u003ci\u003eLusitania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Both terrifying and enthralling.\"--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.\"--NPR\u003cbr\u003e \"Thoroughly engrossing.\"--George R.R. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLusitania\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of \u003ci\u003eUnterseeboot\u003c\/i\u003e-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 \u003ci\u003eLusitania\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDead Wake\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gripping and important, \u003ci\u003eDead Wake\u003c\/i\u003e captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Washington State Book Award * One of the Best Books of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49523898351889,"sku":"CIN0307408876G","price":3.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532578726161,"sku":"GOR007501491","price":11.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548035555601,"sku":"GOR008788904","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49565002432785,"sku":"GOR007548513","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49617122459921,"sku":"CIN0307408876VG","price":4.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49676143558929,"sku":"CIN0307408876A","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50784793985297,"sku":"GOR012020337","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983409844497,"sku":"NIN9780307408877","price":22.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307408876.jpg?v=1751291236","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/dead-wake-book-erik-larson-9780307408877","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}