Non-Fiction
Related: About this forumI just finished "Dead Wake"--Erik Larson
Terrific---and just in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania-May 7,1915.
So many things,if done correctly,could have prevented this disaster.
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SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Erik Larson is one of my favorite writers, and I've had the wonderful experience of seeing him at book events, one for "Isaac's Storm" -- amazing book and if you haven't read it yet add it to your reading pile immediately -- and "The Devil in the White City".
He is wonderful on book tour. Go see him if you can.
virgogal
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FSogol
(46,726 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)being processed (one for each of the three branches of the Santa Fe library) with an additional seven copies now ordered.
It'll be a while before I get it.
FSogol
(46,726 posts)Fairfax County Library.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Agreed. Excellent book.
Looks like it might have been an early version of LIHOP (Let it happen on purpose for those who were not here for the 9/11 arguments a decade or more ago) in order to induce the US to enter the war.
Not quite All Quiet on the Western Front, but in my view it's as much an anti-war book as the story of the ship and its captain and passenger. I was struck, though not terribly surprised, of the absence of stories of those in steerage.
Definitely worth a read.
BdAzzSRT
(14 posts)In addition to the historical /political aspect he did a great job of making passengers into people you cared about ( or didn't in some cases ).