02610cam a2200325 4500 576590148 TxAuBib 20220710120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781632860859 1632860856 B00UX2UMY4 Amazon b9b985e5-34b3-4558-bea2-3685cfb1201b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2166532 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Preston, Diana. Lusitania [Libby eBook] : An Epic Tragedy. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3594kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. <i>Lusitania</i>-pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat-became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a torpedo fired from the German submarine <i>U-20</i>, she exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred people, more than half of the passengers and crew. Cold-blooded, deliberate, and unprecedented in the annals of war, the sinking of the <i>Lusitania</i> shocked the world. It also jolted the United States out of its neutrality and hastened the nation's entry into World War I.<br /> <br /> In her riveting account of this enormous and controversial tragedy, Diana Preston recalls both a pivotal moment in history and a remarkable human drama. The story of the <i>Lusitania</i> is a window on the maritime world of the early twentieth century: the heyday of the luxury liner, the first days of the modern submarine, and the climax of the decades-long German-British rivalry for supremacy of the Atlantic. Above all, it is the story of the passengers and crew on that fateful voyage-a story of terror and cowardice, of self-sacrifice and heroism, of death and miraculous survival. Transportation. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-10 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/lusitania-b9b985?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/lusitania-b9b985?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/lusitania-b9b985?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)