Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Red Cross and strangers take solace in

and strangers take solace in each other

A masterfully written World War I-era novel about the secrets between a brother and sister

The decision making process proves far from easy as tensions and prejudices from their former lives come to the fore

finding trenches

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania Red Cross and strangers take solace inDescription by Erik Larson Paperback On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania