Lusitania : Saga and Myth

Lusitania : Saga and Myth

David Ramsay
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An objective and enthralling account of the sinking of the Lusitania, which unravels many of the myths and, for the first time, explains the true significance of that terrible disaster.The saga of the Lusitania is one of the most remarkable in the annals of maritime history. State-of-the-art when she went into service and the first express liner to be equipped with steam turbines, she outclassed all her rivals. She triumphantly restored British supremacy on the North Atlantic passenger routes and became an acknowledged commercial success; she was highly popular with her regular passengers. Her sinking in May 1915 by a German U-boat, with heavy loss of life, was at that time the most savage attack on civilians in the course of war, and was widely denounced in allied and neutral countries. From that day her loss has become encrusted with legends (including conspiracy theories), many of them created by German propaganda. In this new book David Ramsay has unraveled those myths and...

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Rok:
2001
Wydawnictwo:
W. W. Norton & Company;Chatham
Język:
english
Strony:
308
ISBN 10:
039323990X
ISBN 13:
9780393239904
Plik:
EPUB, 3.25 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2001
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