Description

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. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. 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 and President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief.

• Erik Larson
• ISBN-13: 9780307408860
• Publication date: 3/10/2015
• Pages: 448