The passenger-liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat, one of many throughout the Atlantic at the time. Over 1,200 people perished in this attack, including citizens from the then neutral United States. Many questions, however, still remain: was the liner armed? Was it carrying contraband munitions in a secret effort to aid the Allies? Did the Germans set out from the start to sink the ship? Was it deliberately allowed to be sunk (by the...

"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers...

Details the events leading up to and following the sinking of Britain's Lusitania from the perspectives of those involved. Additional features include a bullet-point summary of the events, compelling narrative descriptions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, questions to spark critical thinking, sources to guide further research, historical photographs, informative captions, a table of contents, an index, an introduction to the author,...