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发表于2024-11-22
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On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack.
Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.
It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.
Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history.
Erik Larson is a writer, journalist and novelist. Nominated for a Pulitzer prize for investigative journalism on The Wall Street Journal, he has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State and Johns Hopkins.
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評分Warfare and bureaucracy, ruthlessness and melancholia, ignorance and secrecy, done and undone, hunter and the hunted, us and the others. You know nothing above but the rule, bear the cost of sailing with the wrong boat at your own risk.
評分停不下來的一本書,明明知道瞭結果,我還是很緊張地追著看下去。這主要是因為“為什麼”三個字:為什麼這個悲劇會發生。作者很善於設置懸念,埋下伏筆。最後迴顧起來,曆史的不幸總是多個偶然和必然因素結閤起來的,任何一個因素錯過瞭,曆史都可能改寫。
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評分停不下來的一本書,明明知道瞭結果,我還是很緊張地追著看下去。這主要是因為“為什麼”三個字:為什麼這個悲劇會發生。作者很善於設置懸念,埋下伏筆。最後迴顧起來,曆史的不幸總是多個偶然和必然因素結閤起來的,任何一個因素錯過瞭,曆史都可能改寫。
1915年5月7日英国客轮Lusitania号被德国潜艇用1枚鱼雷击沉,这是当时全世界最快最大的客轮。虽然事前德国人在纽约登报——威胁进入交战区的船只都要面临被击沉的危险,但绝大部分乘客要么没看到,要么不以为然。结果,1959乘客和职员中只有764人活下来,死亡人数为1195人,加上...
評分1915年5月7日英国客轮Lusitania号被德国潜艇用1枚鱼雷击沉,这是当时全世界最快最大的客轮。虽然事前德国人在纽约登报——威胁进入交战区的船只都要面临被击沉的危险,但绝大部分乘客要么没看到,要么不以为然。结果,1959乘客和职员中只有764人活下来,死亡人数为1195人,加上...
評分1915年5月7日英国客轮Lusitania号被德国潜艇用1枚鱼雷击沉,这是当时全世界最快最大的客轮。虽然事前德国人在纽约登报——威胁进入交战区的船只都要面临被击沉的危险,但绝大部分乘客要么没看到,要么不以为然。结果,1959乘客和职员中只有764人活下来,死亡人数为1195人,加上...
評分1915年5月7日英国客轮Lusitania号被德国潜艇用1枚鱼雷击沉,这是当时全世界最快最大的客轮。虽然事前德国人在纽约登报——威胁进入交战区的船只都要面临被击沉的危险,但绝大部分乘客要么没看到,要么不以为然。结果,1959乘客和职员中只有764人活下来,死亡人数为1195人,加上...
評分1915年5月7日英国客轮Lusitania号被德国潜艇用1枚鱼雷击沉,这是当时全世界最快最大的客轮。虽然事前德国人在纽约登报——威胁进入交战区的船只都要面临被击沉的危险,但绝大部分乘客要么没看到,要么不以为然。结果,1959乘客和职员中只有764人活下来,死亡人数为1195人,加上...
Dead Wake pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024