The Lusitania story
By: Mitch Peeke with Kevin Walsh-Johnson
Contributors: Walsh-Johnson, Kevin
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Charnwood
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781444824544
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; German Naval operations; Naval operations; Submarine; Shipwrecks; History; Naval Military operations; German; Lusitania (Ship)
Description: RMS LUSITANIA is best remembered today for the controversy surrounding her loss as the result of a German submarine attack on Friday 7th May, 1915, during the First World War. But this book also tells of her life before that cataclysmic event: the ground-breaking advances in maritime engineering that she represented, her hitherto unheard-of degree of opulence, and her seven glorious years of peacetime service - including her capture of the coveted Blue Riband award for Great Britain. Here, three members of the Lusitania Historical Society take a close and authoritative look at the disaster which befell her, and attempt to determine why this magnificent vessel, together with over a thousand souls, was lost in a mere eighteen minutes ...
Notes: Adult.