In 1915, a German submarine sunk the Lusitania, a British passenger ship, killing nearly 1,200 people including 123 Americans. The story of that disaster is the subject of a new book ...

It involves the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania during the First World ... because Germany's code books had been captured and then decoded at a top-secret facility called Room 40.

the sinking of the Lusitania, the subject of his latest book, Dead Wake (Crown, on sale March 10), timed to the 100th anniversary of the disaster. Remember the Lusitania? What was once a World War ...

There have been so many books about the sinking by a German submarine of the British liner Lusitania off the Irish ... later of this particular maritime disaster’s political dimensions.

The centennial of the disaster is May 17 ... and sign “Dead Wake” at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. Cunard’s gigantic and luxurious Lusitania set sail from New York on May 1, 1915, bound ...

Most of the book covers one week — from May 1, as the Lusitania left New York City, until the disaster — but it spans several continents. We’re taken inside the malodorous confines of U-20 ...

Here are 13 of the most astonishing, must-read disaster books of all time… The Associated ... by Walter Lord Three years before the Lusitania went down, the "unsinkable" ocean liner Titanic ...

When the German U-boats targeted the Lusitania with a torpedo, the ship sank more quickly than expected. Here's why that ...

The book is also rich with gripping details ... Learning from the Titanic disaster from only a year prior, the Lusitania had been equipped with plenty of life boats and life jackets, though ...