Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy - Tapa blanda

Preston, Diana

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9781632860842: Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy

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ISBN 10: 1632860848 ISBN 13: 9781632860842

Editorial: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2015

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Cr�ticas:

"Tugs at the emotions...[a] substantial and colorful account."

"Impressive...her portrait of a world convulsed in war is compelling and comprehensive."

"Lets the reader in on much more than the people in 1915 were allowed to know."

"A fitting monument to a multitudinous loss."

"Preston's gifts as a writer of narrative history place her in the company of Barbarn Tuchman and a handful of other historians...[Her] vivid reconstruction of the dying moments of the Lusitania's passengers and crew, more than 1,200 of whom were killed, is unforgettable...likely to become the definitive account of the Lusitania tragedy."

"In the masterful hands of Diana Perston this single violent act...becomes a signal warning to us that the world was even then speeding down the long side toward the bombing of civilian populations, toward the napalming of villages, toward the suicide bombing of malls."

"Stunning...Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy hardly feels like a history lesson...nicely balanced by a novelist's sense of pacing...the author keeps us the suspense by crosscutting between descriptions of opulent life on board the liner and scenes inside the U-boat, where the crew grimly stalked its prey...Gradually, horrifying, the two narratives converge...excellent...terrific."

"Mesmerizing...Preston takes the reader on a nail-biting, increasingly tense voyage form New York into the deadly, submarine-infested waters of the Irish Sea...This is mandatory reading for lovers of history, students of maritime disasters, and those who simply can't resist captivating non-fiction."

Tugs at the emotions... �a� substantial and colorful account ("Washington Post Book World") Impressive...her portrait of a world convulsed in war is compelling and comprehensive. ("Wall Street Journal") Lets the reader in on much more than the people in 1915 were allowed to know. ("Seattle Times") ...a book as majestic as its subject...("Chicago Sun-Times")

Tugs at the emotions... [a] substantial and colorful account ("Washington Post Book World") Impressive...her portrait of a world convulsed in war is compelling and comprehensive. ("Wall Street Journal") Lets the reader in on much more than the people in 1915 were allowed to know. ("Seattle Times") ...a book as majestic as its subject...("Chicago Sun-Times")

Rese�a del editor:

On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania--pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat--became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a torpedo fired from the German submarine U-20, she exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred people, more than half of the passengers and crew. Cold-blooded, deliberate, and unprecedented in the annals of war, the sinking of the Lusitania shocked the world. It also jolted the United States out of its neutrality and hastened the nation's entry into World War I.

In her riveting account of this enormous and controversial tragedy, Diana Preston recalls both a pivotal moment in history and a remarkable human drama. The story of the Lusitania is a window on the maritime world of the early twentieth century: the heyday of the luxury liner, the first days of the modern submarine, and the climax of the decades-long German-British rivalry for supremacy of the Atlantic. Above all, it is the story of the passengers and crew on that fateful voyage--a story of terror and cowardice, of self-sacrifice and heroism, of death and miraculous survival.

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