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What I like about Erik Larson's books is the minutiae of detail that he provides. He sets the scene, the time, the interior of various characters and their backgrounds and lets the story tell itself. With Dead Wake there's quite a story to tell. Naturally, it all culminates in the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine prior to the US entering WW1.
We get both the Lusitania's and the U Boat's perspective leading up to the sinking and both stories play out between each other, building the ...more
We get both the Lusitania's and the U Boat's perspective leading up to the sinking and both stories play out between each other, building the ...more
Move over Devil in the White City, there is a new best. Incredible, heart gripping, human story of tragedy and survivors, of WWI, Germans, the British, Americans, spies and leaders and captains and Presidents. How a ship and a people met their fate. I couldn't put it down.
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