| Description |
xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Publisher's description: On May 7, 1915. the German U-boat 20 torpedoed and sank the 'unarmed' passenger Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsdale on the southwest coast of Ireland, killing some twelve hundred 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. But the real truth of the disaster has never been revealed. With explosive and meticulous documentation, London Sunday Times correspondent Colin Simpson unearths the story of a monumental exercise in political cynicism, a record of arrogance, ignorance, and expediency that indicts dozens of high government officials in both England and America. ... Simpson demonstrates that the Lusitania was unstable, improperly designed, badly staffed, and loaded with munitions for the Allies - and that the British Admiralty, with high American complicity, to an extent created the situation in which the ship could be sunk |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [279]-290 |
| Subject |
Lusitania (Steamship)
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| LC no. |
73000000 |
| ISBN |
0316791784 |
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