Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.

LARSON, Erik.

Item Number: 141083

New York: Crown Publishers, 2015.

First edition of the bestselling author’s enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by Erik Larson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.

"If creating “an experience” is Larson’s primary goal, then “Dead Wake” largely succeeds. There are brisk cameos by Churchill and Woodrow Wilson, desperate flurries of wireless messages and telegrams, quick flashes to London and Berlin. These passages have a crackling, propulsive energy that most other books about the Lusitania — often written for disaster buffs or steampunk aficionados — sorely lack" (The New York Times).