Erik Larson
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2003
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America?s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who,...
Author
Publisher
Ariel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
501 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
"Inmenso y lujoso, el Lusitania, que zarpo de Nueva York el 1 de mayo de 1915, era un monumento al orgullo y el ingenio de la epoca, el barco civil mas rapido. Con el pasaje completo, partio con tranquilidad pese a la atmosfera belica existente. La idea de que un submarino aleman pudiera hundirlo parecia absurda, un sentimiento del que se hacia eco la naviera: (S0(BEl Lusitania es el barco mas seguro del mar. Es demasiado rapido para cualquier submarino....
3) Dead wake
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015, ©2014
Physical Desc
11 CDs (ca. 13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"It is a story that many of us think we know but don?t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the...
Author
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
14 CDs (18 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Eric Larson delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade...