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The Lusitania's Last Voyage: Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German Submarine off the Irish Coast May 7, 1915

By Geoffrey , Lauriat , Jr. Charles E.;Wawro

Book information

Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
9781510708679, 9781510708792, 1510708790
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
11 MB (11554100 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
History;HISTORY / Military / World War I;Electroni

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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Photo Insert;A first-hand account of the Lusitania's doomed final voyage. On May 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania as it passed the Old Head of Kinsale in Ireland on its way to Liverpool, England. This act of war had a terrible toll#x97;of the 1,962 passengers and crew, 1,191 lost their lives, many of them women and children. One of the passengers on the ship was Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., a rare book dealer who travelled regularly to London for business. When the German embassy placed a warning in New York papers warning that any ships of Great Br.

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