But in the case of a liner, the wake can persist for many thousands of yards, if not miles, behind the ship. There’s the live wake, I suppose you could call it, which comes off the engine. An obvious question: Why is your book called Dead Wake?ĭead wake is an old maritime term for the disturbance that remains on the water long after a boat has passed. In his new book Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, best-selling author Erik Larson takes readers inside what he calls “a disaster of monumental proportions.” From his home in New York, he explains how, as with the Titanic, a concatenation of events caused a catastrophic tragedy how Britain’s top-secret anti-submarine intelligence unit, Room 40, may have organized a cover-up after the event and what it felt like to come face-to-face with the morgue photographs of the dead.
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