A first-hand account of the Lusitania's doomed final voyage. On May
7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of
the passenger liner R.M.S. Lusitania as it passed the Old Head of
Kinsale in Ireland on its way to Liverpool, England. This act of
war had a terrible toll of the 1,962 passengers and crew, 1,191
lost their lives, many of them women and children. One of the
passengers on the ship was Charles E. Lauriat, Jr., a rare book
dealer who traveled regularly to London for business. When the
German embassy placed a warning notice in several New York papers
stating that any ships of Great Britain and her allies would be
considered fair targets, Lauriat, along with most of the other
passengers, dismissed the notion that a civilian liner would
actually be attacked. Lauriat's memoir of the journey recreates the
torpedo attack describing the listing ship as it filled with water
and people scrambled for lifeboats, too often finding them
inaccessible or unusable and details the rescue that came too late
for most of his fellow passengers. Lauriat then points out the many
faults of the official inquiry, telling the true story of that
tragic day. With a new foreword and photos of the ship, The
Lusitania's Last Voyage is a gripping account of one of history's
greatest naval disasters. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our
Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud
to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and
memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical
figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander
Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich
Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published
survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming
adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not
every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a
national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are
sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise
find a home.
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