Erik Larson

Broschiertes Buch

Dead Wake

The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Beschreibung

On 1st May 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Her passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone and its submarines were bringing terror to the Atlantic.

Autor

Erik Larson is a prize-winning journalist and narrative historian. His books include Isaac's Storm, Thunderstruck and In the Garden of Beasts and have combined sales of nearly 6 million copies and been published in 14 countries. His No.1 bestseller The Devil in the White City won an Edgar Award and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Non-Fiction Award. He lives in Seattle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Black Swan / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 690795
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780552779340
• ISBN-10: 0552779342
• Artikelnr.: 43383642

Rezensionen

Gripping, superbly well-researched...he ratchets up the tension as the doomed ship speeds towards the inevitable. Though you know it's going to happen, you keep praying that it won't, right up until the moment when the torpedo strikes. You feel this way because Larson makes you care...Thanks to Larson's vivid narrative, you are there with those passengers in the thick of it. It may have happened 100 years ago, but this masterpiece made it feel like yesterday. James Delingpole MAIL ON SUNDAY