Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson

PASSENGERS who survived—all of whom received from Cunard a lifetime discount of 25 percent—there

very near to death.” The prospect had not frightened her, she wrote: “Rather, somehow, one had a protected feeling, as if it were a kindly thing.”

Every book is an expedition into unfamiliar realms, with both an intellectual and a physical component.

larsons remarks