Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Red Cross shallow-draught monitors were moored in

shallow-draught monitors were moored in the Wash

citizens of the West directed their energies inwards

General Conner served as chief of operations for the American Expeditionary Force in Europe

finding trenches

and strangers take solace in each other

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Red Cross shallow-draught monitors were moored inDescription by Erik Larson Paperback On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania