Posts Tagged: WWI

Here’s what I knew about the Lusitania prior to reading Dead Wake: Germany torpedoed and sunk a passenger ship in the Atlantic during WWI.  Here’s what I know now: a whole lot more, thanks to Erik Larson’s meticulously researched and sourced book.  It’s been a long time since my high school history classes, but I know that not a lot of attention was paid to WWI, and if the Lusitania was mentioned at all, it probably got a sentence in… Read more »