You already know the story of what happened to the Titanic. But what about another famed ocean liner, the Lusitania?
Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts, turns his pen now to how, in the midst of World War One, this luxurious ship got caught in a web of wartime intrigue and ultimately met a grisly end. He joined Boston Public Radio to discuss his new book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania.
"What everybody knows about the Lusitania is actually not much," Larson said. "The common wisdom is World War One...luxury ship, hit by torpedo, sinks, America enters the war. That's not the way it happened," he said.
"The story is essentially about the voyage and the experience people had aboard the ship. That's why I kind of wanted to go into it," Larson continued. "It was a pretty horrendous experience."
To hear more from author Erik Larson, click the audio link above, or visit his discussion and book signing sponsored by the Harvard Book Store on Thursday, March 12 at 7pm.
