by Erik Larson
read by Scott Brick
Hennepin County Library audiobook 11 discs
genre: non-fiction, history
This was incredibly well-researched and well-written. It was also extremely depressing. Author of The Devil in the White City, Larson has once again done his homework and relies upon a tremendous amount of primary source material (letters, diaries, telegrams, record books, etc.) to piece together the events leading up to the U-boat attack on the passenger liner on May 7, 1915. It made me so sad to hear the politics and "could have beens" behind this terrible tragedy. Brick's vocal work is wonderful, drawing the listener in. The captain of the Lusitania (William Thomas Turner) and the captain of U-boat 20 (Walther Schwieger) are brought to life powerfully.
It is interesting to tie the events of WWI in this story with what was happening in The Family Romanov which I read earlier this summer.
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