Dead Wake

So what do you know about the Lusitania? A week ago if you asked me about it about all I would have said is, “It was a big ship. It sank sometime around World War I. Lots of people died. Didn’t the Germans sink it?”

I know, pitiful.

Erik Larson, author of numerous bestsellers and an amazing storyteller of true history, wrote Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania for the uninformed like me. And, as most of his books are, it’s informative, entertaining, and thoughtful.

At first I was going to suggest the book as a good summer …

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