DEAD WAKE: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

May 1, 1915. The Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds," and her captain placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that kept civilian ships safe from attack. But an array of forces--hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.