Download or read book The Lusitania s Last Voyage written by Charles Emelius Lauriat and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Voyage of the Lusitania written by Adolph A. Hoehling and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrifying story of the British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915.
Download or read book The Lusitania s Last Voyage written by Charles Lauriat and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Lusitania’s Last Voyage by Charles Lauriat
Download or read book The Lusitania s Last Voyage written by Charles E. LAURIAT and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The torpedoing of the Lusitania was a pivotal moment in the course of the First World War as it triggered the entry of the United States into the war. But this incident is often overshadowed by the larger historical theatre of the Great War.Charles E. Lauriant, Jr was a passenger on the fateful final voyage of the Lusitania and survived to tell the tale. Few accounts concentrate on the actual event itself, but this memoir changes that perception as it is a first hand account from a survivor of the incident. Published in 1915, the same year as the sinking, this account describes the days on the ship before and during the attack and clearly depicts the horrors of war at sea. This edition has a new introduction which looks at the importance of the sinking of the Lusitania.Charles E. Lauriant, Jr was a Bostonian bookseller who became a hero when escaping the Lusitania. Read his harrowing account and important historical document now.This is another exciting book from Undersea Publishing, bringing the best in classic and new stories of the sea.
Download or read book The Lusitania s Last Voyage written by Jr Charles E. Lauriat and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lusitania's Last Voyage by Jr. Charles E. Lauriat is about a first-person account of the ship the Lusitania's doomed last voyage. Excerpt: "Avert Thy gaze, O God, close tight Thine eyes! Glance down no longer on the ocean foam, Lest Thou behold such horrors as can turn Men's burning hearts to ice, and chill their souls. Keep Thine heart warm and full of charity That Thou mayst yet be able to forgive, And pity feel for those who know not when To pause in deeds of ruthless sacrifice."
Download or read book Dead Wake written by Erik Larson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo
Download or read book LUSITANIAS LAST VOYAGE ILLUST written by Charles Lauriat and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German Submarine off the Irish Coast on May 7, 1915 by One of the Survivors. First published in October 1915.
Download or read book The Lusitania s Last Voyage written by Jr Charles Emelius Lauriat and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Lusitania written by Diana Preston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania offers a portrait of early twentieth-century maritime history and the terrible impact of the disaster on the course of World War I.
Download or read book The Last Voyage of the Lusitania written by A. A. Hoehling and published by Madison Books. This book was released on 1996-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles one of the greatest sea tragedies of our time.
Download or read book The Lusitania s Last Voyage written by Charles Emelius Lauriat and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Lusitania s Last Voyage written by Charles Lauriat and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The extraordinary part of this narrative about the greatest marine disaster of the ages-greatest because so criminally encompassed - is that it indulges in no heroics, that it dramatizes none of the horrors of the scene, which might easily have been forgiven for the sake of truth. It gains in vividness, in the actual details of what occurred by the absence of this blurring process of emotion which a more excitable chronicler would have given. Mr. Lauriat tells what happens, from the moment the torpedo struck to his arrival in London, with a continuity of incident, with a clearness of detail, that is impressive. . . . Mr. Lauriat's narrative is rich in many an episode that brings the terrific suffering and endurance of the passengers vividly to one's sense of what the tragedy was like on its pathetic side. How much he centred in the thrilling experiences he describes, one comes to realize by what he tells of the other brave men and women who were sharing his perils." -Boston Transcript.
Download or read book Exploring the Lusitania written by Robert D. Ballard and published by New York : Warner Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the controversies surrounding the sinking of the cruise ship in 1915
Download or read book Lusitania Lost written by Leonard Carpenter and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World War I spy thriller from an author who puts “electrifying action into everything he writes” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times–bestselling author). Alma Brady is on the run from a New York mob boss. Desperate to escape Big Jim Hogan and his murderous gang, she joins a group of nurses bound for the Great War in Europe. Their ship is the Lusitania, the most celebrated luxury liner of 1915, with a passenger list of Broadway and Continental celebrities—who do not realize they are headed for certain doom. Aboard the ship she meets Matthew Vane, a war correspondent who wants to find out what secret weapons may be hidden in the Lusitania cargo hold. During the one-week voyage, these characters will be drawn into romance, intrigue and murder, in an epic historical thriller that takes us above and below decks, into the German U-boat lurking nearby, and to the capitals and battlefields of Europe. “Anyone who thrilled to the Titanic film will love this book.” —Sandra Nielsen
Download or read book The Lusitania s Last Voyage written by Charles Emelius Jr. Lauriat and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lusitania's Last Voyage: Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine" by Charles Emelius Jr. Lauriat is a gripping firsthand account of a tragic moment in maritime history. Lauriat's narrative provides readers with an intimate and harrowing perspective on the sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania during World War I. This book is a powerful testament to the courage and resilience of the passengers and crew, as well as a reminder of the human cost of war. It is a compelling read for those interested in historical accounts of maritime disasters and the impact of global conflicts on civilian lives.
Download or read book The Ship of Dreams written by Gareth Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. “While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite” (Voyage). In April 1912, six notable people were among those privileged to experience the height of luxury—first class passage on “the ship of dreams,” the RMS Titanic: Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews; American captain of industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish-American immigrant Ida Straus; and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. Within a week of setting sail, they were all caught up in the horrifying disaster of the Titanic’s sinking, one of the biggest news stories of the century. Today, we can see their stories and the Titanic’s voyage as the beginning of the end of the established hierarchy of the Edwardian era. Writing in his signature elegant prose and using previously unpublished sources, deck plans, journal entries, and surviving artifacts, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of these first-class travelers to immerse us in a time of unprecedented change in British and American history. Through their intertwining lives, he examines social, technological, political, and economic forces such as the nuances of the British class system, the explosion of competition in the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the Irish Home Rule Crisis, and the Jewish-American immigrant experience while also recounting their intimate stories of bravery, tragedy, and selflessness. Lavishly illustrated with color and black and white photographs, this is “a beautiful requiem” (The Wall Street Journal) in which “readers get the story of this particular floating Tower of Babel in riveting detail, and with all the wider context they could want” (Christian Science Monitor).
Download or read book The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria written by Greg King and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner, including never-before-seen photos of the wreck today. In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. Unlike the tragedy of the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster of the modern age. Audiences witnessed everything that ensued after the unthinkable collision of two modern vessels equipped with radar: perilous hours of uncertainty; the heroic rescue of passengers; and the final gasp as the pride of the Italian fleet slipped beneath the Atlantic, taking some fifty lives with her. Her loss signaled the end of the golden age of ocean liner travel. Now, Greg King and Penny Wilson offer a fresh look at this legendary liner and her tragic fate. Andrea Doria represented the romance of travel, the possibility of new lives in the new world, and the glamour of 1950s art, culture, and life. Set against a glorious backdrop of celebrity and La Dolce Vita, Andrea Doria's last voyage comes vividly to life in a narrative tightly focused on her passengers – Cary Grant's wife; Philadelphia's flamboyant mayor; the heiress to the Marshall Field fortune; and many brave Italian emigrants – who found themselves plunged into a desperate struggle to survive. The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria follows the effect this trauma had on their lives, and brings the story up-to-date with the latest expeditions to the wreck. Drawing on in-depth research, interviews with survivors, and never-before-seen photos of the wreck as it is today, The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria is a vibrant story of fatal errors, shattered lives, and the triumph of the human spirit.
