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(0)Erik Larson
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...
2) Dead wake
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio/Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On May 1, 1915, with World War I entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers surprisingly were at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. The Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "greyhounds" and the captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A group of researchers sets sail for the Isle of Dorn in the North Atlantic in 1905 to explore the cause of several mysterious disappearances, most notably a family of four who vanished without a trace after a week-long holiday on the island. Led by Professor James, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, they begin to explore the island's sole cottage and surrounding landscape in search of a logical explanation. The idyllic setting...