{"product_id":"lusitania-book-diana-preston-9781632860842","title":"Lusitania","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600427524369,"sku":"GOR009869231","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49897313927441,"sku":"CIN1632860848VG","price":5.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50386731401489,"sku":"CIN1632860848G","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53549759430929,"sku":"CIN1632860848A","price":13.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1632860848.jpg?v=1751420391","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/lusitania-book-diana-preston-9781632860842","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}