![]() Rarely was an era so glamorous rarely was a ship so magnificent and rarely was the human element of tragedy so quickly lost to diplomatic maneuvers and militaristic threats. Now, authors Greg King and Penny Wilson resurrect this lost, glittering world to show the golden age of travel and illuminate the most prominent of Lusitania's passengers. ![]() ![]() Lives, relationships, and marriages ended in the icy waters off the Irish Sea those who survived were left haunted and plagued with guilt. Was she carrying munitions that exploded? Did Winston Churchill engineer a conspiracy that doomed the liner? Lost amid these tangled skeins is the romantic, vibrant, and finally heartrending tale of the passengers who sailed aboard her. She was the largest and fastest vessel a oat and reclaimed the Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic from the German Empire, with a service speed. A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. R.M.S Lusitania was a technological mar- vel of her time. ![]() New World to the Old yet-an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers - to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the ![]() Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. ![]()
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