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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishersLtd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Description
For readers of Kate Williams, Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson, a captivating novel of love and resilience during the Great War, inspired by the author's family history. As the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar....
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Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
American spy and war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb follows a man who may be a German secret service agent with vital information onto the Lusitania during World War I.
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The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.
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....
7) 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...
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"From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century--two deep in the past, one in the present--to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. May 2013Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 370 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought with poison gas, torpedoes killing civilians, and aerial bombardment. Each of these actions violated rules of war carefully agreed at the Hague Conventions of 1898 and 1907. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. While each of these momentous events has been chronicled in histories of the war, historian Diana Preston links...
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