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The Lusitania Story: The Atrocity that Shook the World (ePub)

Updated Centenary Edition

Maritime > Naval WWI > By Year > 1915

By Steven Jones, Mitch Peeke, Kevin Walsh-Johnson
Imprint: Pen & Sword Maritime
File Size: 19.7 MB (.epub)
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781783400386
Published: 6th June 2002

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The Lusitania Story is the complete story of this most famous ocean liner, told for the first time in a single volume. The Lusitania is today most remembered for controversy surrounding her loss by a German submarine attack in 1915, during the First World War. But this book also tells of her life before that cataclysmic event. It tells of the ground-breaking advances in maritime engineering that she represented, as well as a hitherto unheard of degree of opulence.

This book also takes a close look at the disaster which befell her and, with the help of leading experts, the authors examine the circumstances of her loss and try to determine why this magnificent vessel was lost in a mere 18 minutes.


“In my opinion, this book is the most complete, most sensitive, and yet most concise history of the life and death of the great ship, RMS Lusitania and the principal people involved in her story". Gregg Bemis - Lusitania's owner and ongoing surveyor

'This excellent book was first published in 2002, when it was deservedly praised for the original research it offered, and for its level-headed approach to an historical episode that has long been surrounded by mystery, controversy and often wild speculation. Now it's been updated for a special centenary edition, to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania.'

Merseyside Messenger

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Kent Messenger

The Lusitania Story is a good read.

Marine News - RSF

Strongly recommended.

Warship World

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Marine Model Magazine

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Village Voices Magazine

Essential reading

Sea Breezes

From the chapter 'The Last Departure' onwards, the story becomes as gripping as the plot of a novel... Consistent, very readable and compelling. A book thoroughly to be recommended, and not just to those with a particular interest in the Lusitania herself.

Ships in Scale

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Centenary News

The author's commendably sober investigation provides answers that are mostly irrefutable, and where they are not they are at the very least convincing and extremely plausible.

The book is always readable... the chapters describing the ship's final voyage are incredible gripping.

It's an unforgettable story, and one which the authors of this book tell superbly.

Kent Online website

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Kent Life

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Kent on Sunday
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