The LUSITANIA
The LUSITANIA
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“The LUSITANIA” By Colin Simpson. On May 7, 1915, the British passenger liner Lusitania was torpedoed by the German submarine U-20 off the southwest coast of Ireland. She sank within 18 minutes with the loss of some 1,200 men, women and children, many of them American. The British government claimed the Lusitania was only a passenger liner—the largest and most luxurious ship afloat. The German government claimed the liner was, in actuality, an armed auxiliary cruiser of the Royal Navy, carrying tons of military material and contraband. Using classified documents, author Colin Simpson, a London Sunday Times correspondent, uncovers the real truth surrounding the disaster that the Lusitania sank from an explosion of munitions cargo, not from the torpedo, and that she was probably left unescorted deliberately in the hype her sinking would draw the United States into World War I. 1976 Paperback edition. 280 pages, 39 black and white photos, 3 maps, 3 diagrams, an appendix and index.
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