Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

This was a re-read for me. But with his new Civil War book that's been published I don't see myself reading anymore of his books.

I could not put this book down.

One of my goals for myself this year was to take my total reading goal (50 books) and devote 10% of that to historical books in the non-fiction realm. I mistakenly thought Dead Wake was fiction so it now counts as my historical goal.

Larson writes such an engaging story that you flow along with it like it is fiction. Hence, my mistake.

I choose to add the historical goal because of the current landscape in America. The old adage stands true:

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If you love history, and especially military history, with a lot of facts and figures, this is your book. It gives you information from all possible about the people and events that lead to this tragedy, or success, if you are the German u-boat captain.

5 stars.

This is a lot more than just the sinking of the Lusitania but that's how history works, my dudes. We stan context, event mapping, timelines, primary source narrative reconstruction, and post-event impacts.

And if you don't like those things you may still like this because Larson writes engaging nonfiction that reads like fiction.