ASIN: B00NP7YIJY
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 65
*Includes pictures*Includes passengers' and crew members' accounts of the attack and sinking*Discusses the debates over whether the Lusitania was smuggling weapons*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsIn 1906, the RMS Lusitania was at the forefront of transatlantic shipping. Briefly the largest ship in the world, the designers and engineers who built the Lusitania aimed for her to represent the height of luxury for passengers while also being the harbinger of a new technological age, replete with revolutionary engines that would allow the gigantic ship to move at speeds that would have been considered impossible just years earlier. Indeed, the highly competitive industry would spur the development of bigger and better ocean liners in the coming years, the most famous being the Titanic.The Lusitania and the Titanic would become the two most famous ships ...
