The Lusitania story
by Mitch Peeke
RMS LUSITANIA is best remembered today for the controversy surrounding her loss as the result of a German submarine attack on Friday 7th May, 1915, during the First World War. But this book also tells of her life before that cataclysmic event: the ground-breaking advances in maritime engineering that she represented, her hitherto unheard-of degree of opulence, and her seven glorious years of peacetime service - including her capture of the coveted Blue Riband award for Great Britain. Here, three members of the Lusitania Historical Society take a close and authoritative look at the disaster which befell her, and attempt to determine why this magnificent vessel, together with over a thousand souls, was lost in a mere eighteen minutes ...
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World War, 1914-1918, Lusitania (Steamship), Submarine, Lusitania (Ship), Naval operations, German Naval operations, Shipwrecks, History, Naval Military operations, German, Lusitania (schip), Eerste Wereldoorlog, World war, 1914-1918, naval operationsPlaces
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Lusitania Story: The Atrocity That Shocked the World
2015, Pen & Sword Books Limited
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