![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And since 128 of the dead were Americans, the publicity coup reached across the Atlantic and may have played a part in convincing the United States to enter the war in 1917.In other words, it's a pivotal historical event ripe for narrative re-visiting on the occasion of its anniversary, and it's for this reason that we should all spare a moment of profound sympathy for Penny Wilson and Greg King, whose book Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Era, new from St. 1, 265 of the dead had been passengers – men, women, families, a great many children – and this gave the British government an unbeatable public relations coup in its propaganda war against Germany, despite the fact that the Germans were entirely correct to consider the ship a vessel of war, since it was carrying munitions intended for front-line British troops. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitaniaby Erik LarsonCrown, 20152015 marks the 100 th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, at the cost of 1,198 of the roughly 2000 people on board. ![]()
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