![]() ![]() How did people cope? What does this event tell us about that period in history-how people lived or what life looked like? How does it speak to the human condition? Maybe it’s my interest in the past mixed with the compelling nature of stories in which people are forced to confront unfathomable situations. I am easily captivated by tales of disaster and tragedy in history. ![]() The ship sank within eighteen minutes, with only 764 of the 1,962 people on board saved. For those unfamiliar with it, the Lusitania was a large British ocean liner that was torpedoed by a German U-boat in May 1915 (during the First World War) while en route from New York to Liverpool. I chose to read Erik Larson’s Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania in part because I knew little about the Lusitania disaster. ![]()
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