The Lusitania

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On May 7, 1915, the German U-boat 20 torpedoed and sank the "unarmed" passenger liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing some 1200 men, women, and children--many of them Americans. The world raged at the barbarity of the Kaiser and the German people, and the act did much to precipitate the later entrance of the United States into World War I. This book claims that the Lusitania was unstable, improperly designed, badly staffed, and loaded with munitions for the Allies--and that the Brit…

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Title Statements

Full title :The Lusitania / Colin Simpson.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:[1973], ©1972.
Edition:[1st American ed.]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Little, Brown
Place of Publication:Boston
Language:eng
Publication Date:[1973], ©1972.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 303 pages, [24] pages of plates : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1036690673
LC Classification:D592.L8
Dewey Decimal:940.4/514

Subjects

Great Britain Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Opération… History Lusitania (Steamship) Military operations, Naval -- German Military operations, Naval -- Submarine Naufrages -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Shipwrecks Shipwrecks -- History -- 20th century World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operation…