![]() ![]() His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, The. His latest books, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz and Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, both hit no. The only follow-up on this encounter is news of what happens to the girl after the ship goes down. Erik Larson is the author of eight books, six of which became New York Times bestsellers. Dead Wake includes the story of a crew member painting the underside of a lifeboat in a colour called “crab fat” when he sees the feet of two little rich girls and their nanny approach. What he saw now shocked even him.” And he often throws in anecdotes simply because they’re colourful, not because they advance any central narrative. He has made his reputation on cliffhanger phrasings like: “Schwieger again took the periscope. Larson has little trouble stitching all this together. But the Lusitania was a ship carrying nearly 2,000 people, including Americans, at a time when the US had not entered the First World War. Walther Schwieger, commander of the submarine U-20 and a major figure in Larson’s book, had already taken a shot at a hospital ship without qualms. ![]() There had been instances of what was then called “frightfulness,” a more polite name for terrorism, preceding the Lusitania attack. ![]()
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