![]() Lusitania, as we learned in researching and writing our book Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy and the End of the Edwardian Era, offers something more brutal.Īn unusually strong aura of potential danger surrounded Lusitania’s last voyage. Wrapped in an aura of romantic myth and self-sacrifice, Titanic became a Greek tragedy writ large, an event that seemed to presage all the horrors of the coming war. Just three years earlier, Titanic had gone to the bottom of the Atlantic after her fatal encounter with an iceberg. Image is in the public domain via The New York Times. The New York Times on May 8, 1915, after the sinking of the Lusitania. ![]() Even nine months into the Great War, this brutal act had the power to shock: an international outcry denounced Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Germany as a nation of murderers. ![]() On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed Cunard’s Lusitania, leaving dead in the waters just off the Irish Coast. ![]() Home » Military History » Lessons from the Sinking of the Lusitania Lessons from the Sinking of the Lusitania Posted on Maby Greg KingĪs epic human tragedy the story has everything: a great ocean liner a glittering cast of millionaires, actresses, suffragettes and scandalous lovers and a terrible disaster played out over eighteen brutal minutes. ![]()
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