Dead Wake

Dead Wake
Cover of Dead Wake
Author	Erik Larson
Language	English
Genre	History; nonfiction
Publisher	Crown Publishers
Publication date	2015
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print, hardcover and paperback
Pages	448
ISBN	0-307-40886-8

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania is a 2015 New York Times non-fiction bestseller written by author Erik Larson. The book looks at the sinking of Lusitania during World War I and the events surrounding the sinking.

Awards

The book was named Book of the Year in the History Category by World Magazine. It won the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography in 2015.

According to Amazon, Dead Wake was one of the 10 bestselling books of 2015.

Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
WWI U-boat campaign Unrestricted submarine warfare
Main	Wreck Commissioner's inquiry American entry into World War I
Survivors	Oliver Percy Bernard Josephine Brandell Avis Dolphin Ogden H. Hammond Ian Holbourn Charles T. Jeffery Rita Jolivet Gwynn Parry Jones Margaret, Lady Mackworth Sir Frederick Orr-Lewis Audrey Pearl Theodate Pope Riddle D. A. Thomas Scott Turner William T. Turner
Victims	Lindon Bates Jr. Thomas O'Brien Butler William Broderick Cloete Marie Depage Justus Miles Forman Charles Frohman Elbert Hubbard Alice Moore Hubbard Charles Klein Sir Hugh Lane Basil Maturin Frederick Stark Pearson Frances Stephens Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Lothrop Withington
Books and films	The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918 film) Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea (2007 film) Listen to the Moon (2014 novel) Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015 book)
Others	SM U-20 Walther Schwieger HMS Juno Lusitania Peace Memorial Old Church Cemetery, Cobh Memorial Garden & Signal Tower, Kinsale Tower Hill Memorial
Category

Erik Larson
Books	The Naked Consumer (1992) Lethal Passage (1994) Isaac's Storm (1999) The Devil in the White City (2002) Thunderstruck (2006) In the Garden of Beasts (2011) Dead Wake (2015) The Splendid and the Vile (2020) No One Goes Alone (2021)