THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE LUSITANIA by Hoehling, A.A. and Mary

Henry Holt & Co., NY. (1956). First US Edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, VG/VG CONDITION, 255 pages, ,illus, bibliog., index-------------------------------- This exciting book chronicles the last days of the Lusitania, the huge ocean liner torpedoed and sunk on May 7, 1915. Never before had an unarmed passenger ship been attacked without warning . . . 1198 persons died with it that day.The liner was British, the submarine German, but the repercussions were international in scope, for 124 Americans perished with the ship as it went down well in sight of the Irish coast. Among them were Elbert Hubbard, the homespun sage of East Aurora, N. Y., whose Message to Garcia was known to millions; Charles Frohman, dean of American theatrical producers (among his stars, Julia Marlowe, Maude Adams, John Drew); and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, millionaire, horse-breeder, playboy. What they, their fellow passengers, and the submarine crew itself did during the hours preceding the attack, and in the eighteen minutes after as the Lusitania slowly slid beneath the water, make a story both terrifying and heroic.