TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preston,Diana
TI  - Lusitania: an epic tragedy 
SN  - 0802713750 (alk. paper)
AV  - D 592.L8 P74 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Walker & Co.
KW  - Lusitania (Steamship)
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Naval operations, German
KW  - Naval operations
KW  - Submarine
KW  - Shipwrecks
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - United States
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Lusitania-Zwischenfall
KW  - swd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 502-510) and index; Prologue --; pt. 1; Troubled waters --; ch. 1; A scrap of paper --; ch. 2; The weapon of the weaker nation --; ch. 3; More beautiful than Solomon's temple --; ch. 4; Gott strafe England! --; ch. 5; The american armory --; pt. 2; Final crossing --; ch. 6; The warning --; ch. 7; Leaving harbor --; ch. 8; The ostrich club --; ch. 9; Fellow passengers --; ch. 10; Inside the U-20 --; ch. 11. "The; miraculous draught of fishes" --; ch. 12; Into the war zone --; ch. 13; "Suppose they should sink the Lusitania?" --; pt. 3; An ocean red with blood --; ch. 14; "My God, we are lost" --; ch. 15; "Come at once!" --; ch. 16; A bizarre orchestra of death --; ch. 17; Wave upon wave --; ch. 18; A long lingering moan --; ch. 19; Rescues and recoveries --; ch. 20; The town of the dead --; ch. 21; A Sad and horrible task --; pt. 4; "Remember the Lusitania!" --; ch. 22; The hun's most ghastly crime --; ch. 23; Fool or traitor? --; ch. 24; No longer neutral spectators --; ch. 25; German agents are everywhere --; ch. 26; The Kaiser's business only --; ch. 27; "That story is forever disposed of" --; ch. 28; Diving into the wreck --; pt. 5; Willful murder? --; ch. 29; A legitimate target? --; ch. 30; Harm's way --; ch. 31; Anglo-Saxon attitudes --; ch. 32; The U-boat diary --; ch. 33; A new barbarism --; Epilogue --; appendix A; The Lusitania in facts and figures --; appendix B.A; technical account of the sinking --; Acknowledgments --; Notes and sources --; Bibliography --; Art credits --; Index
N2  - An account of the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania offers a portrait of early twentieth-century maritime history and the terrible impact of the disaster on the course of World War I
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