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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

byErik Larson
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Yiqun Pan
5.0 out of 5 starsA nice experience of reading
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2017
The book is about:
The book Dead wake is a historically based novel- like non-fiction that relates to the sink of Lusitania, one of the major reasons why did America get involved in the world one. Unlike the textbook or the objective documents that represent the official recording of this event. This book gradually brings the whole events out from all the small perspectives of people who got involved or lost their lives in it. The author’s big motivation for writing this book is to let people experience the whole events from the basic stories. Normally the information we received from those world war 1 documents is simple and unemotional. Without the name of dead people, there are not strong feelings through reading the death numbers. Without the background information, there is no explanation to why the boat was sunk by torpedoes. The author of this book drew the world of readers back to the last century, the happiness, desires, hopelessness from people are all seems close enough to touch. Even though the book itself focused mostly on the Boat and the submarine U-20 which sunk it, the characterization of other passengers on Lusitania is attractive and interesting. The movement of different organization and famous people such as American president Wilson were all caught by Erik Larson.

More than a normal non-fiction, Dead Wake shows its strength on imitating the humanity and atmospheres. The whole book is having a comparably easy and comfortable rhythm at the first chapter. Rather than just talking about the big historical event itself, Erik Larson fills in more small details and personal life parts into the skeleton of the book, to make it more vivid. On the other hand, the people on lusitania are not all the characters he focuses on. For example, the one who received the order to sank the boat with torpedoes, Captain Schwieger of the submarine U-20 is actually a pretty hard-working and nice captain in his normal life. ‘Yet among his peers and crew Schwieger was known for this kindness and good humor and for maintaining a cheerful atmosphere aboard his submarine.’ However, the war is cruel and cold-bloody, the perspective of enemies helped me understand the conception of the war better. Overall, this book is pretty nice book that can bring the readers into the experiences of the events happened in the past. Also, for one who is learning the First World War, this book gave me more new knowledge and brought me a historical event that I did not even hear before. The relationship between this book and the First world war build me a bridge on the way of studying this part of the history.

Relationship to the world war 1
Before America participated in the first world war, German started to attack any boats that had the British relationships near the British sea areas. They posted the news on the newspaper and this truly caused a lot of people to change their ideas. However, the passengers on lusitania didn’t see the risk they taking, because the boat they are taking was having the greatest speed in the whole world thanks to its newest technology. All the people believed that there weren’t any submarines able to catch the boat due to its unbelievable speed at that time. Unfortunately, the extrema of fog happened on the open sea of the Ireland. This accidentally triggered the following tragedy. The meeting of U-20 submarine and lusitania was not predicted by room 40, an organization which mainly focused the interception of telegrams from German in that period this time. This time, the speed of lusitania did not function as much as they thought. The boat is stucked in the fog, without the eyesight for speeding up. The U-20 caught the boat and gave the first torpedo under the order of captain Schwieger. The boat was hugely impacted and shook. People were running around and spreading out the scare. Then, not until most of them reached the bridge of the boat, the second the torpedo was launched without any hesitation. This one ensure the sink of the boat and caused nine tenth of the passengers on the boat fell into the deep water with the boat. Among the 1200 passengers who died in this event, there were nearly a hundred Americans. Only 300 corpse of were found after the boat was sunk by the U-20. This, undoubtedly, stimulate the anger of Americans. All the citizens want to give Germany punishment for their evil behaves. By the fact of other events, America was involved into this war finally.

The reflections after reading the books
Although I am reading a book of historical event, the feeling I received from the book is not limited on just a historical event. It is something deeper and was truly impacting my emotions. After reading the 300 pages in the book, most passengers became true people who used to live somewhere in the world vividly. I would love to talk with them if I was there. However, 1200 lives were end only because of two torpedoes. One of the greatest boat at that time was sunk. The declaration of Germany proved that they need an enemy who could teach them an unforgettable lesson. And that was what America did. I was usually imagining that what kind of fear was spreading at the last moment before the boat sunk. The mixture of 1200 people’s emotion before their death must be filled by darkness and blood. Many people on the boat was trying to look for someone they knew on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The captain of the boat was not concerning of the disaster at all. No one could predict the existence of both fog and German submarine until they met. ‘Turner had no concern about the German warning. Shortly before departure, he was standing on the ship’s promenade deck, talking with Alfred Vanderbilt and Charles Frohman, when one of the ship-news man --- apparently not Jack Lawrence --- approached and asked Vanderbilt if he thought he’d be as lucky this time as he had been in deciding not to sail on the Titanic. Vanderbilt smiled but said nothing.’ The people on the whole boat could not noticed the event. How many people died without noticing their situation? This is my biggest question after reading the book.

Lusitania was definitely a boat that can let the people inside feel the atmosphere of happiness. ‘“Ships do have personalities,” wrote Jack Lawrence, the shipping writer for he New York Evening Mail. Some ships “have warm, friendly atmosphere while others are only steel plates riveted around throbbing turbines.”’ There were some children and infants on the boat and only one tenth of them finally survived. ‘The passenger manifest listed ninety-five children and thirty-nine infants’ It told me that no one can be ignored by the war when the enemy catches you. The fearness of war is remained in my mind by this book after seeing the innocent death under the big environment of the war. Thanks to this book, I learnt the fearness of the war.

The reasons for people to read this book
In conclusion, this book is definitely recommended for readers, even for those who are not interested in the world war one. From my perspective, the book focused more on people instead of events. The details in a person’s life usually appear for characterizing the personality of this person. The intention of For example, ‘Lauriat took the scrapbooks back to his home in Cambridge, where he inspected them in the company of his wife, Marian. He then packed them carefully, in his extension suitcase, and locked it. At the station later that night, he checked his trunk and shoe box for transport direct to the lusitania but held back his other three pieces. He kept these with him in the calendar.’ the characteristics of one of the passengers on the boat, Lauriat, a bookseller who usually went to Britain for transporting books, is fully shown for the readers. The introduction of boats or submarines are also comprehensive and informational for those people who want to learn more about the world war One. ‘U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers.’ The professional explanation like this line appeared commonly in the book. In short, the book is fascinating and interesting, feeling the past historical events from it is the attraction no readers can reject.
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B. Kaufman
3.0 out of 5 starsErik Larson's books are great, but the printing of this one sucked
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2022
You need to let the printer know that on something like 10 of the pages, the last line was cut off. That was very disappointing. That is the only time this has happened with an Erik Larson book.
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Yiqun Pan
5.0 out of 5 stars A nice experience of reading
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2017
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The book is about:
The book Dead wake is a historically based novel- like non-fiction that relates to the sink of Lusitania, one of the major reasons why did America get involved in the world one. Unlike the textbook or the objective documents that represent the official recording of this event. This book gradually brings the whole events out from all the small perspectives of people who got involved or lost their lives in it. The author’s big motivation for writing this book is to let people experience the whole events from the basic stories. Normally the information we received from those world war 1 documents is simple and unemotional. Without the name of dead people, there are not strong feelings through reading the death numbers. Without the background information, there is no explanation to why the boat was sunk by torpedoes. The author of this book drew the world of readers back to the last century, the happiness, desires, hopelessness from people are all seems close enough to touch. Even though the book itself focused mostly on the Boat and the submarine U-20 which sunk it, the characterization of other passengers on Lusitania is attractive and interesting. The movement of different organization and famous people such as American president Wilson were all caught by Erik Larson.

More than a normal non-fiction, Dead Wake shows its strength on imitating the humanity and atmospheres. The whole book is having a comparably easy and comfortable rhythm at the first chapter. Rather than just talking about the big historical event itself, Erik Larson fills in more small details and personal life parts into the skeleton of the book, to make it more vivid. On the other hand, the people on lusitania are not all the characters he focuses on. For example, the one who received the order to sank the boat with torpedoes, Captain Schwieger of the submarine U-20 is actually a pretty hard-working and nice captain in his normal life. ‘Yet among his peers and crew Schwieger was known for this kindness and good humor and for maintaining a cheerful atmosphere aboard his submarine.’ However, the war is cruel and cold-bloody, the perspective of enemies helped me understand the conception of the war better. Overall, this book is pretty nice book that can bring the readers into the experiences of the events happened in the past. Also, for one who is learning the First World War, this book gave me more new knowledge and brought me a historical event that I did not even hear before. The relationship between this book and the First world war build me a bridge on the way of studying this part of the history.

Relationship to the world war 1
Before America participated in the first world war, German started to attack any boats that had the British relationships near the British sea areas. They posted the news on the newspaper and this truly caused a lot of people to change their ideas. However, the passengers on lusitania didn’t see the risk they taking, because the boat they are taking was having the greatest speed in the whole world thanks to its newest technology. All the people believed that there weren’t any submarines able to catch the boat due to its unbelievable speed at that time. Unfortunately, the extrema of fog happened on the open sea of the Ireland. This accidentally triggered the following tragedy. The meeting of U-20 submarine and lusitania was not predicted by room 40, an organization which mainly focused the interception of telegrams from German in that period this time. This time, the speed of lusitania did not function as much as they thought. The boat is stucked in the fog, without the eyesight for speeding up. The U-20 caught the boat and gave the first torpedo under the order of captain Schwieger. The boat was hugely impacted and shook. People were running around and spreading out the scare. Then, not until most of them reached the bridge of the boat, the second the torpedo was launched without any hesitation. This one ensure the sink of the boat and caused nine tenth of the passengers on the boat fell into the deep water with the boat. Among the 1200 passengers who died in this event, there were nearly a hundred Americans. Only 300 corpse of were found after the boat was sunk by the U-20. This, undoubtedly, stimulate the anger of Americans. All the citizens want to give Germany punishment for their evil behaves. By the fact of other events, America was involved into this war finally.

The reflections after reading the books
Although I am reading a book of historical event, the feeling I received from the book is not limited on just a historical event. It is something deeper and was truly impacting my emotions. After reading the 300 pages in the book, most passengers became true people who used to live somewhere in the world vividly. I would love to talk with them if I was there. However, 1200 lives were end only because of two torpedoes. One of the greatest boat at that time was sunk. The declaration of Germany proved that they need an enemy who could teach them an unforgettable lesson. And that was what America did. I was usually imagining that what kind of fear was spreading at the last moment before the boat sunk. The mixture of 1200 people’s emotion before their death must be filled by darkness and blood. Many people on the boat was trying to look for someone they knew on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The captain of the boat was not concerning of the disaster at all. No one could predict the existence of both fog and German submarine until they met. ‘Turner had no concern about the German warning. Shortly before departure, he was standing on the ship’s promenade deck, talking with Alfred Vanderbilt and Charles Frohman, when one of the ship-news man --- apparently not Jack Lawrence --- approached and asked Vanderbilt if he thought he’d be as lucky this time as he had been in deciding not to sail on the Titanic. Vanderbilt smiled but said nothing.’ The people on the whole boat could not noticed the event. How many people died without noticing their situation? This is my biggest question after reading the book.

Lusitania was definitely a boat that can let the people inside feel the atmosphere of happiness. ‘“Ships do have personalities,” wrote Jack Lawrence, the shipping writer for he New York Evening Mail. Some ships “have warm, friendly atmosphere while others are only steel plates riveted around throbbing turbines.”’ There were some children and infants on the boat and only one tenth of them finally survived. ‘The passenger manifest listed ninety-five children and thirty-nine infants’ It told me that no one can be ignored by the war when the enemy catches you. The fearness of war is remained in my mind by this book after seeing the innocent death under the big environment of the war. Thanks to this book, I learnt the fearness of the war.

The reasons for people to read this book
In conclusion, this book is definitely recommended for readers, even for those who are not interested in the world war one. From my perspective, the book focused more on people instead of events. The details in a person’s life usually appear for characterizing the personality of this person. The intention of For example, ‘Lauriat took the scrapbooks back to his home in Cambridge, where he inspected them in the company of his wife, Marian. He then packed them carefully, in his extension suitcase, and locked it. At the station later that night, he checked his trunk and shoe box for transport direct to the lusitania but held back his other three pieces. He kept these with him in the calendar.’ the characteristics of one of the passengers on the boat, Lauriat, a bookseller who usually went to Britain for transporting books, is fully shown for the readers. The introduction of boats or submarines are also comprehensive and informational for those people who want to learn more about the world war One. ‘U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers.’ The professional explanation like this line appeared commonly in the book. In short, the book is fascinating and interesting, feeling the past historical events from it is the attraction no readers can reject.
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Michael Poirier
5.0 out of 5 stars An epic tour de force
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2015
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“Thunderstruck” is not just the title of one of Erik Larson’s books, it is the reaction readers will feel when the have finished his latest work, “Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania”. The 1915 wartime sinking of this luxury liner usually rates a brief mention in history books, and lives forever in the R.M.S. Titanic’s shadow. As we approach the 100th anniversary, Larson takes us on an incredible journey across the Atlantic on a ship marked for destruction.

The Lusitania was known was one of the fastest and most elegant ships of her time. As World War One began, the speed of the Lusitania made her ideal for crossings. This was especially appreciated by Americans trapped in Europe and wanted to get home safely. However, Cunard eventually decided with passenger numbers dropping that speed could be reduced for economy’s sake, but that Lusitania could still outrun any submarine. “Dead Wake” begins with the preparations for the May 1, 1915 voyage. The hustle and bustle of pier 54 is vividly described, so much so, that readers can envision themselves as crew load the baggage and passengers board the gangways to their assigned staterooms. Darting among the crowd is veteran reporter Jack Lawrence who chats with many, including the wealthy scion Alfred Vanderbilt. An ominous telegram signed “Morte” has warned Vanderbilt not to sail, but he laughs it off with Lawrence who then moves onto his next interview. Rare book dealer Charles Lauriat carries with him a rare Charles Dickens volume and has it ready just in case of evacuation, while Dwight Harris carries aboard his own lifebelt. Alta Piper receives a psychic warning at the last moment not to board the Lusitania. There is an ominous feeling of suppressed dread that lingers in the air which Larson conveys with his well-chosen cast of characters that move the story forward.

However, the story is not entirely set aboard the ship, but also under the sea in the German submarine U-20, in the dark corners of the British intelligence room 40, and in the lovelorn and war leery President Wilson’s White House. It is the perfect quadrangle of intrigue that makes this a page-turner as each major character is fleshed out due to Larson’s skills as an investigative journalist. Some authors choose to just copy what others have found in archives, but Larson’s research into the backgrounds of his principle players makes the story more intimate. Preston Prichard may not have survived, but letters to his grieving family from those who knew him describe a friendly cabin mate, an agreeable table companion, and energetic games organizer. Nothing is more poignant than the women who developed crushes on him during the crossing and the sadness of his loss. A young boy named Robert Kay is traveling to see his mother’s people. Mrs. Kay is heavily pregnant as were several others. The author conveys the loneliness of Robert’s mid-voyage quarantine of measles as he wistfully looks out his porthole. A remark by Ethel Line’s stewardess reminds us that despite the card games, dances, and hearty meals all that the danger is not over yet. She tells the young woman that the ship will not go down, but up with all the munitions rumored to be aboard.

The day of fate arrives, and once the Irish coast comes into view, we anticipate the inevitable torpedoing. The buildup is intense and when it finally happens, the horror of war is realized. The ship goes down in a quick 18 minutes and there is no dead space as Larson carefully paces what happens to the passengers and crew. Lifeboats filled with women and children are dropped into the sea by seamen not trained in evacuation. Water entering the ship through portholes that should have been closed in the “danger zone” hastens the ship’s descent to the bottom. Yet, despite this confusion many remained stoic and helped where they could. Readers will wince as Mrs. Kay holds her son’s hand as the ocean rushes towards them, or when Ogden Hammond tries to prevent his lifeboat from spilling everyone into the water as he vainly clutches the ropes. Two brothers named Morton are part of the crew and try until the last second to launch a lifeboat filled with people, but time has run out for the Lusitania.

Hours pass as survivors wait for rescue, but for many rescue comes too late. The heroism continues as people help keep others afloat, pulling them into lifeboats and rafts and to go search for any further survivors. The despair is captured magnificently and readers will no doubt be overcome with emotion as people are landed in Queenstown and the search through morgues begins. When the book ends, we know where the people in each story are headed and we are assured that life goes on… As Larson shows, sometimes for the better, other times for the worst.

People who enjoy history, human interest, suspense, etc … will consider this book a new favorite. Those familiar with the Lusitania’s story will find a nice mix of new and established passenger and crew accounts, but without the extraneous material that weighs down other books. Erik Larson proves that history is not boring. He is the right man to take us on these journeys through time and make us learn something along the way. It was a distinct pleasure to provide assistance for this book.

Michael Poirier is co-author of “Into the Danger Zone: Sea Crossings of the First World War”, now available world-wide on Amazon and through the publisher, The History Press UK.
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WILLIAM H FULLER
5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected Casualties -- Or Perthaps Not So Unexpected?
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 16, 2019
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“Please don't tell me that we're going to be subjected to this kind of inept writing,” I thought, when, on page 7, I encountered “the ship was booked to . . . carry nearly 2,000 people, or 'souls' . . . .” My suspicion deepened two pages on when I ran across a reference to the captain's holding “the record for a 'round' voyage, meaning round-trip, . . .” I fervently hoped that I was not going to be subjected to parenthetical comments every few pages giving unwanted and unneeded synonyms for perfectly comprehensible words in the text, thereby utterly destroying the flow of the narrative. Thankfully, this distracting technique rapidly disappeared, a third example appearing only much later when the author felt compelled to insult his readers again by lecturing us that the forecastle of a ship often appears spelled as “fo'c'sle.” Other than these three insults to readers' intelligence, I can levy no criticism against Dead Wake:: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, for it is an outstanding history and is otherwise written in a compelling and engaging style.

By introducing us to the captain and several passengers in the initial chapters, Larson enables us readers to become rather intimate with them and to see them as fellow beings with abilities, shortcomings, worries, loves and eccentricities. They represent the nearly 2,000 people aboard the fated ship and through them we come to care what befalls these doomed souls. We also come to view events through other eyes, those of the commander of Unterseeboot zwanzig, U-20, the submarine that launches the fatal torpedo.

Dead Wake also reaches beyond the Lusitania into the British Admiralty, and we learn something of the personalities and actions of a few significant government officials. We learn of Room 40, a precursor of Bletchley Park, the secret code-breaking operation of the government. Back in the still-isolationist United States, we see President Woodrow Wilson continuing to resist joining the far-off European war even as the bodies of U.S. citizens piled higher as Germany began more and more to disregard flags of neutral countries and to attack all shipping without exception. We wonder to what extent Wilson's personal grief over the death of his wife and his pursuit of the affections of Edith Bolling Galt distracted him from world affairs.

We are reminded that the sinking of the Lusitania did not precipitate entry of the U.S. into World War I and that, in fact, about two years passed between those two events. An intercepted telegram from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the the president of Mexico urged an alliance with Germany and, assuming victory by the Central Powers, offered to give the states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to Mexico. (Publication of that offer in U.S. newspapers was much more the death knell of isolationist sentiment than was the destruction of the Lusitania.)

Dead Wake, in short, is an excellent history of the years leading up to the entry of the U.S. in The Great War, years in which Germany held the upper hand at sea, years in which civilian passengers died in increasing numbers before the term “collateral damage” became common, years in which perhaps—just perhaps—British naval protection of ships such as the Lusitania was intentionally weak so that a disastrous attack, should one occur, might goad the U.S. into fighting alongside Allied forces. We understand why the British Admiralty ordered the recall of the only fast ship that had begun to sail to the rescue of survivors floundering in the frigid ocean. Erik Larson regales us with the known facts and suggests the possibilities in a non-fiction history book that is as captivating as any spy-thriller novel. I cannot envision a reader willingly putting this book down once he or she has once begun it.
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John D. Cofield
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Tale Of Two Ships
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2015
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Nearly one hundred years ago a magnificent ocean liner departed New York carrying nearly 2000 passengers and crew, including a record number of children and infants. The Lusitania, which with its sister ship Mauretania was known as a "Greyhound of the Seas," was the largest and most luxurious passenger ship working the Atlantic Ocean since World War I had broken out the year before. Known for its speed as well as its elegance, the Lusitania was considered safer to travel on in wartime than many smaller, slower, ships, and it thus attracted a large number of passengers. On the same day a very different craft also began its voyage. The German submarine U-20 left its harbor and slipped into the North Sea, ready to begin a week long patrol around the British Isles, assigned to search for and sink shipping carrying supplies to Germany's primary enemy. The saga of these two vessels has been told before, but never so ably as here in Erik Larson's latest history.

Larson does a vivid job of contrasting the Lusitania and the U-20, so that readers understand both what it was like to stroll along the Cunarder's decks and eat, sleep, and socialize in its elegant staterooms and saloons as well as to be a crew member stuffed inside the cramped interior of the submarine, enduring stifling odors and assorted unpleasantnesses along with the ever-present danger of becoming trapped and dying at the bottom of the sea. The two captains, William Turner of the Lusitania and Walther Schweiger of the U-20 also provide some intriguing comparisons: Turner's dourness and lack of sociability versus Schweiger's assorted kindnesses to his crew members (even allowing pet dogs on board!) along with his stoic carrying out of his orders to torpedo as much shipping as possible. There's also quite a bit of material giving background to the drama that was about to unfold: the ongoing battles in Northern France and at Gallipoli are described, and the activities of "Blinker" Hall and his subordinates in British Intelligence who tracked the U-20's voyage. Larson even goes into detail on President Woodrow Wilson's sorrow over the death of his first wife and then of his happiness when he met the woman who was to become the second Mrs. Wilson.

But the main drama here is what happened between the Lusitania and the U-20 on May 7, 1915. We get day by day (at times almost minute by minute) coverage of the paths of the two ships. The U-20 entered British waters and sank several ships in the early days of May, while the Lusitania had an uneventful voyage during which its passengers were wrongly assured that there was no danger and that the ship would be escorted by British navy ships on its final approach to Liverpool. Larson's writing is at its most vivid when he describes the fateful May 7 encounter. We stand beside Schweiger at his periscope as he gives the order to fire the torpedo, then we watch with the passengers who track the torpedo's path (its"dead wake") towards their ship. It took 18 minutes for the Lusitania to go down, and we witness the panic and mad scramble on board as passengers and crew struggle to save themselves, then stay with them as they cling to lifeboats and wreckage and try to survive.

Larson's research is impeccable, making excellent use of the many memoirs, newspaper accounts, captain's logs, and other histories of what happened on and before May 7. He also covers the aftermath, when hearings and investigations at first placed primary blame on Captain Turner, then began to reveal the slipshod maintenance and lack of attention that led to so many casualties. Perhaps the most affecting part of the book comes in the final pages, when we read of the struggles of many of the survivors to deal with the ongoing trauma and of the eventual fates of the U-20 and Schweiger himself.

The story of the Lusitania has been told before, but never as vividly as Larson has achieved here. This is another of the author's excellent histories, and it deserves to be ranked alongside his other masterpieces like In The Garden Of Beasts and The Devil In The White City. And as we approach the 100th anniversary of the deaths of all those poor souls, it is more than appropriate that we remember their lives and their final moments in the pages of this well-crafted history.
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Harry Patz Jr.
5.0 out of 5 stars Both were excellent, and thus I looked forward to "Dead Wake" ...
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 11, 2015
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I've been a big fan of two previous works by Mr. Larson - "In the Garden of Beasts," his work covering the pre-war rise of the Nazis in 1930s Germany, and the "The Devil in the White City," his work on the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and a murderous psychopath. Both were excellent, and thus I looked forward to "Dead Wake" with great anticipation. And perhaps unlike most things in life, his novel exceeded expectations.

I refer to Mr. Larson's works as "historical non-fiction" - they take us through a period o through the historical record of the times, as well as personal and documented correspondence. His work reads like a novel, a page-turner at that, but there is not "imagined" dialogue such as from a TV movie of the week. The details are simply, but in compelling fashion, brought to life.

"Dead Wake" - named for the "trail of fading disturbance" from a ship or torpedo, takes us through the story and the sinking of the Lusitania liner in May, 1915, almost one hundred years ago. It's a tale of World War I, neutral America (before entry into the conflict), new technology - majestic ocean liners, submarines and wireless communication, and a portrayal of American life a long. but also a short, time ago.

I was impressed that passengers arriving in New York from across the US from rail, for example, could check their baggage from their home city directly to the ship. The glamor of the travel of this era is brought home - mountains of luggage, with Cunard allowing each passenger 20 cubic feet of trunks, extension suitcases for gowns, business suits, tuxedos and more. With the deterioration of the experience of air travel, perhaps technology has not advanced all that much today?

But it's also a story of characters - from the ship's Captain William Thomas Turner, President Woodrow Wilson in the grief of death of his first wife, and his emotional resurrection of a new love, to Winston Churchill as First Lord of the British Admiralty. Most of all, it's the story and the experience of passengers traveling in first and second class, from Boston book seller Charles Lauriat-who carried with him a rare work from Charles Dickens-to Theodate Pope, a middle-aged daughter of a wealthy industrialist, who survived and later founded the Avon Old Farms school in Connecticut.

We also meet U-boat commander Walther Schweiger of U-20, his thinking, his approach, his pride and his horror, and how his German submarine sinks the Lusitania. The reader very much gets a full 360 degree view of the global and local events prior to the sinking, including detail on "Room 40" the secret code-breaking office of the British government.

For all the wonderful, detailed, exhaustive description, "Dead Wake" is also a work of suspense. While the reader know the Lusitania will be sunk, the ongoing, if not pulsating, path to that exact event is riveting. It is a huge credit to Mr. Larson's skill in able to deliver both a wonderful historical record and a great story of suspense.

What resonated with me the most was the immediate shock of the torpedo coming to the boat, e.g. the "Dead Wake" and the resultant horror of the ship sinking in 18 minutes, the both hectic scrambling for safety and (among some passengers and crew) the peaceful acceptance of an imminent death.

Mr. Larson also serves a fair amount of debate about who knew what and when, and who held back information. For example, there was a printed warning (from the German government) in the newspapers prior to the Lusitania's disembarking warning of the risks of even passenger ships entering a naval war zone. And a fair amount of data about why there was not British naval escorts for this passenger ship, or other information shared sooner, with the implication being the British understand a sinking of a passenger ship with a significant amount of American passengers would accelerate America's entry into the war. The parallel to the machinations around and behind the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor was not mentioned but was in this reader's mind. Many more facts here are worthy of consideration, but I'll point out the America did not enter the war for two more years.

The book is rich and wonderful, and I will not give any more away other than to say it is a worthy endeavor of your time. As a writer of a coming-of-age book of historical fiction, "The Naive Guys," I can only marvel of Mr. Larson's prowess.

Enjoy!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Appointment with Destiny:
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2015
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In "Dead Wake" Erik Larson has written a fast, exciting, "historical narrative" that follows the principal characters on their journey from a peace-time world to the brink of global war and beyond. His writing is crisp, fast moving and well researched. Using personal correspondences, journals and diaries as well as news-paper reports and official documents, as his sources, Larson manages to piece together the tangled events leading up to the Lusitania's final voyage and her tragic fate. The narrative follows four main "centers" of action; the Lusitania, the German submarine U20, U.S. President Woodrow Willson and the secretive British "Intelligence" in Room 40. While moving from center to center the narrative often takes little side trips to examine the histories of various individuals and organizations that, in one way or another, add depth and color to Lusitania's story. Global affairs in 1915 were a hodgepodge of conflicting ideologies and social turmoil. European countries were locked in a regional war the set the United Kingdom and it's allies against Germany's "Central Powers". The Great War was waged on land and at sea, threatening not only the belligerents but also the "Neutral States" that wanted no part in the war. The United States itself was determined to remain neutral at all cost but circumstances, beyond her control, were conspiring to make that philosophy difficult, if not impossible, to maintain. It was against this background that the Lusitania's final voyage played out. At the helm of the Lusitania was Capt. William T. Turner an experienced sailor who had spent most of his life at sea and worked his way up in ranks to become one of Cunard Line's most trusted captains. The "Enemy Below" was "Kptlt" Walther Schwieger, master of the U20. By delving into each man's personal history, Larson weaves a compelling story of how, and why, this tragic event played out. But this is not only a story of two ships on a collision course with destiny, it's also the story of each ship's crew and passengers. Politics in the early 20th Century was pretty much like it is today. Germany, who felt itself out-gunned at sea by Great Britain, was determined to change that with the use of "underwater boats"; the infamous U-boats. Great Britain, for it's part, viewed itself as master of the sea but was very aware of the threats posed by U-boats stalking it's costal waters. The United States leaned more toward diplomacy as an alternative to all out combat. Early on England acquired some vital intelligence about Germany, intelligence that could alter the Great War's outcome in her favor. In London's "Room 40" it was decided that keeping that knowledge secret was of the most importance, more important than protecting Commercial Shipping Vessels, rescuing ship-wrecked survivors or even warning civilian ships of impending danger. In "Dead Wake" you will get intimate look at the Lusitania's captain, her civilian passengers and her crew. You will also look at U20's captain and crew, the personal life of Woodrow Willson and the intrigue surrounding Winston Churchill's war time decisions. This book invites comparison to another ship's tragic end; the Titanic and the controversy surrounding the life-boat issue.
Fast moving, suspenseful and shocking, this book has it all. I highly recommend it. While I had no downloading or formatting problems with his Kindle edition I did notice a few publisher omissions that the reader should be aware of. The main problem in both the Kindle and Hard Bound editions is the lack of any "link" between the text and the book's extensive Notes. Each Note has a page # that refers you to the proper page but I would prefer a Link "in the text" that I could click on and go directly to that Note. The other issue that I noticed was the lack of illustrations. With all the archival photos available you would think that Larson and Crown Publishing would have included a few to round out our reading experience. There are a couple of nice maps and one photo of Lusitania's launching. However, those issues are just nit-picking on my part and do not change my opinion of the book: a very Good Read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars History that reads like a thriller
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 30, 2015
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Think “ocean liner sinking,” and what comes to mind? The Titanic, of course. Yet the destruction of the Lusitania barely three years later, with the loss of nearly as many lives (almost 1,200), was far more consequential. When the German U-boat designated U-20 torpedoed the luxury liner just south of the Irish coast, sinking it in just 18 minutes, it set off a series of events that led to the entry of the neutral United States into the First World War, sealing the fate of the German and Austro-Hungarian empires. Erik Larson tells the tale of the last voyage of the Lusitania in lush detail in Dead Wake, bringing back to life many of the ship’s passengers and the U-boat captain as well, and casting a bright light on a little-understood chapter in American history.

As Larson explains in a note about sources, he discovered layers of hidden drama and historical significance the more deeply he dug into the tale of the Lusitania. In Dead Wake he lays to rest many historical myths, such as the false impression created by high school history books that Woodrow Wilson rushed to declare war on Germany once the Lusitania had been sunk. (In fact, that came only two years later.) “But that,” he writes, “was just one of the many aspects of the episode that took me by surprise.” The energy of Larson’s prose conveys that sense of revelation. The book is strictly nonfiction but reads like a thriller.

In the final analysis, the sinking of the Lusitania was a tragedy that needn’t have happened. Had the ship’s departure from New York not been delayed because the captain’s niece overstayed her visit on board . . . had the captain, crew, and passengers not shrugged off the German warning published in a popular New York newspaper threatening to sink the Lusitania . . . had the British Admiralty (including First Lord Winston Churchill) informed the captain that two other ocean liners had just been sunk in the same waters where the Lusitania was sailing, or diverted four destroyers from the area where they might have protected the ship, assigning them instead to prevent an attack on one of their celebrated (and militarily useless) battleships . . . had the captain of the ship not ordered an unfortunate and unnecessary last-minute change of course . . . had passengers and some crew members obeyed orders and closed the portholes that admitted hundreds of thousands of gallons of seawater into the ship . . . had the single torpedo aimed at the ship malfunctioned like sixty percent of the torpedoes employed by the German navy . . . the Lusitania would have sped without incident into Liverpool. In fact, a change in any one of these (or other) factors could have prevented the tragedy.

From an historical standpoint, the most interesting aspects of this story are the surprising facts about the nature of submarine warfare in World War I. For example, I’d never known that Britain had more submarines in service than Germany (though they kept the boats as coastal protection), or that the number of U-boats simultaneously hunting prey was vanishingly small, sometimes as few as seven boats. Nor was I aware that the Lusitania had been the fastest liner in the ocean, capable of cruising at twice the speed of German submarines. It’s also fascinating to read about the high-stakes arguments among the commanders of the German navy and their leaders in government. Apparently, it was not foreordained that Germany would practice unrestricted submarine warfare, or that, once undertaken, it would be carried so far.

Erik Larson has written some of the most remarkable historical nonfiction books of the past decade, including The Devil in the White City (about a serial killer who struck during the celebrated 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago), In the Garden of Beasts (about the US Ambassador to Nazi Germany and his lonely — and unsuccessful — crusade to move the State Department toward denouncing Hitler), and now Dead Wake.
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5.0 out of 5 stars "'It was a beautiful sight', he said...
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2015
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The "beautiful sight" referred to in the title of this review was the thought of a passenger standing on deck of the "RMS Lusitania", on May 7, 1915 as he witnessed a torpedo in the water coming directly at the ship. The torpedo was covered with a silvery phosphorescence which made it glow softly as it approached the passenger liner off the southern coast of Ireland. It was beautiful, but deadly, and strangely silent. The resulting strike by the torpedo sank the Lusitania in less than 20 minutes and 1198 "souls" were lost that day. Some 700 others survived. And although the US didn't enter WW1 until nearly two years after the sinking of the Lusitania, the attack on the British passenger liner spurred thoughts of vengeance and war.

The sinking of the RMS Lusitania is the subject of author Erik Larson's latest work of non-fiction, "Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania". The book starts off a bit slowly as Larson gathers the facts of story and weaves together a tale that sets the course of the Lusitania to intersect with the German U-boat 20. Larson writes alternating chapters - "Lusitania", "U-20", and "Room 40" in the Old Admiralty Building in London, among others - as the run-up to the attack moves slowly towards it climax. The reader knows that the "Lusitania" was sunk - no surprises there - but how Larson builds to that climax is writing that very few authors can do as well as Erik Larson.

Submarines - both German and British - became important tools of war by 1915. Germany had fewer than the British, but the Germans seemed to be far more venal in their use. Larson describes the interior of the German submarines and the dangers inherent in their design. Life for 20 or so men crowded together in small, smelly quarters as they hunted ships to attack was not easy or pleasant, but obviously appealed to some men. The captain of Unterseeboot-20 was Walther Schweiger, who was well regarded by both the German naval command and by the men who served under him. He was a "hunter", who was careful with the use of the seven torpedoes he carried on his submarine. He didn't want to waste them on smaller ships; he was hunting the big ships with a lot of cargo, a lot of tonnage.

But why was the RMS Lusitania hunted down? It was a British passenger ship, making a normal run between New York and Liverpool, carrying only civilians. Such passenger ships should have been "off limits" to German submarines but the German government had already warned potential passengers on the May 1st departure of the Lusitania from New York that it was a target of possible attack. An ad appeared in local New York newspapers but most of the passengers who set sail that day weren't worried. The ones who were worried were soothed by the ship's captain, William Turner, a no-nonsense long-time captain for the Cunard line.

The ship's journey across the Atlantic was tracked by the Admiralty, who was also keeping tabs on German submarine activity in the area. In a little-known office - Room 40 - code breakers and officials kept track of U-20. They knew it was "out there", but since U-boat captains were often out of signal range of their bases, the British could not take advantage of intercepting messages.

Returning to the passenger watching the torpedo as it came toward him; I can't imagine much more of a surreal moment. He and many other passengers and crew members had known their ship was moving into treacherous waters as they approached the coast of Ireland. Erik Larson takes all these people and government entities and makes suspenseful what shouldn't ordinarily be suspenseful. "Dead Wake" is a gem.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A sound narrative that goes above and below a sea of secrets in May 1915
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2015
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The first time I really heard the name LUSITANIA was several years ago when I was watching Antiques Roadshow and in that episode an older gentleman had a coin he found in his late aunt's attic. It turned out to be a Sinking of the Lusitania Commemorative medal and after listening to the expert explain a little about the tragedy, I wanted to discover more but at the time I could only locate repeat cursory information that left me with the disappointed impression that was all there was to learn about the subject. Then last year the name of the ship resurfaced in quite a few books I was reading about World War I and with my curiosity of this topic rekindled I purchased a couple titles but nothing caught my attention like the description for Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Encompassing not only an informative account of the maritime disaster but with a unique styling that I kept receiving recommendations about; I decided to take a chance. So I pre-ordered this title, waited patiently for today and eagerly downloaded this as soon as it was available in the early hours this morning. I have just finished the final page and I can't recommend this book enough because that was fantastic.

I was told that Mr. Larson was the master of narrative suspense and this was clearly evident to this reader as he took me on an entertaining and informative voyage onto the luxurious Lusitania, down the periscope of the infamous U-20, into the top secret Room 40 in London, into halls of the White House and down the war trenches across Europe. It became hard to put this read down and even though I knew from history what was to follow the way the book is set up you feel every roll of the waves, the impending danger, the dampness of the fog and crushing grief that thousands must have felt in the face of such horrible events. It may become very hard for some readers not to shed a tear about the vivid passages of small children being laid to rest in a final embrace with their mothers. Or feel a shiver reading the haunting account of the last known footage of the Lusitania and its passengers waving goodbye to their loved ones or not holding your breath when clouds of deadly chlorine gas are released coming ever closer to young men hunched in the muddy trenches.

I lost count of the hidden gems of trivia and the times I forgot this was history and not some very creative imagination at work, no this actually happened. I was amazed how much the Titanic (one of my favorite subjects to learn and read about) was mentioned in this book and it was strangely fascinating how passengers and crew of the Lusitania and Titanic seemed knotted together by many eerie coincidences. I also appreciated that Mr. Larson just states the facts and doesn't step onto that sometimes uncomfortable box and break the reader's immersion by injecting personal opinions into the narrative or going on some wild tangent. He lets his reader's assemble from the historic evidence what they will by presenting the bare facts in a easy accessible fashion. Which is perfect when it comes to the story of the Lusitania and final years of World War I, a lot of controversy, mystery and theories still shadow the wake of Lusitania and in Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of Lusitania every one of those are presented to reader and it is up to them to answer those lingering questions; which would make a very interesting hour at a book club discussion. Overall, this was gripping read that goes beyond those last tragic 18 minutes in May 1915 and this reader can't wait to see what the next work will be about; perhaps a certain series of intriguing events hinted at the end of this book that will be reaching a 100th anniversary in 2018? I can only hope.
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5.0 out of 5 stars on Celebrity's Summit - a beautiful and gracious ship-brought me a new world
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Back in 2003, my first voyage, on Celebrity's Summit - a beautiful and gracious ship-brought me a new world, another great way to enjoy travel and make friends.
From Vancouver to Anchorage, the Western and Eastern Mediterranean, crossing Panama Canal from LA to Miami, the Caribbean, all I travelled on cruise ships, one of which was more than four times the tonnage of Titanic or Lusitania. The very thing bothered me on the first day onboard was always an evacuation drill during which we all had to try on our life jackets or watch stewards demonstrating how to put them on and check the location of a designated life boat, being wearisome. No one was exempted.

This book is about Lusitania's final voyage from New york to Liverpool and her sinking. It could generate ten-hour documentary film, three times longer than the movie Titanic's running time. In fact, Whitestar's Titanic had collided with an iceberg and sank three years before Cunard's Lusitania was torpedoed by German U-20 and sank in 1915. What stunned me was the fact that all events in this book really did occur. How important putting on a life jacket correctly is! I'm serious. People in a life jacket in the right way survived. People, in the wrong way, died. But most people including passengers and crew members had no time to go get their life jackets in their staterooms. It was too sudden.

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Notwithstanding overflowing-but not easy to garner-archival treasures in America and Britain, Lusitania affair had long been constituted skimpy. Erik Larson, the writer, meticulously delved into the materials like telegrams, intercepted wireless messages, survivor depositions, secret intelligence ledgers, actual war log written by U-20 submarine's commander Schwieger, Edith Galt's love letters to and from the president Wilson, and so on. He wove the story in as vivid a manner as possible, without any beautification.
I don't know if he has a prodigious or innate talent in writing or not. But I do know he has an ability to make the readers absorbed in his work to the extent that sometimes tears well up the eyes and stream down the cheeks. It's maybe because this book is utterly based on the real story. It's riveting and compelling. What makes this book shinier is his passion for studying historical truths and its concomitant research and investigation.

While reading this book, I found myself sailing on her somewhere from New York to Liverpool, somewhere on the lido deck, appreciating drawings and Dickens's Carol brought by Charles Lauriat, watching well-dressed girls accompanied by chaperons, listening to Dwight Harris bragging about his valuables, having cheerful conversations with tablemates about next cruising.

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Cunard's Lusitania, cruiseship crossing the sea between New York and Liverpool, with four funnels, when fully loaded with luggage and people including crew and passengers - to capacity over 2,000 - weighed 4,400 tons and could have a speed of 25 knots. Her captain, William Thomas Turner, excelled at handling large ships like this.

Lusitania departed from New York on May 1, 1915, full of elation about transatlantic travel. Cunard ignored the warning from Germany despite a telegram, reading "Do not sail on her". On account of Churchill's policy, in the hopes of embroiling the US with Germany, there was no escort by British navy's destroyers even though Room-40 already got intercepted informations about German submarine's attack on any ship they wanted.
Lusitania sank one day before arriving. She went down into the water with two remaining meals onboard before reaching Liverpool, on May 7, 1915.

How lucky her twin sister Mauretania was! A lookout on her spotted a periscope of a submarine and two torpedoes racing toward her. She made a full turn to a starboard side toward the submarine. Both torpedoes missed; the submarine submerged and fled. Agility!

DEAD WAKE? Read the book yourself to know.
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