Lustitania

Macdonald Futura Publishers, London, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illustrator: Terry Hadler -- Cover Art. 1.140 kg.; VI, 7-734 pages. Blue coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. A little bumping and rubbing to the backstrip and book corners. A few marks to the book panels and browning to the text block edges and to the internal text. The front hinge has been slightly sprung. Illustrated dustwrapper (wraparound) by Terry Hadler, with black and purple titles to the front panel and backstrip. Minor rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges. A novel about the sinking of the Cunard passenger liner "Lustitania" in 1915. Like the "unsinkable Titanic" before her, she was supposedly virtually unsinkable until the seventh of May 1915 when she was hit with a German torpedo and went down in the Irish Sea, with the loss of life of 1200 of a complement of 1900 people on board. In this novel the author goes behind the scenes, to the captain of the Lustitania and of the captain of the U-boat who fired the torpedo, politics of the time, of the raging War taking place and of the German policy called "Schrecklizhkeit" (frightfullness] by which they hoped to demoralise their enemies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Terry Hadler -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction -- Military; Fiction -- Maritime; ISBN: 0354041835. ISBN/EAN: 9780354041836. Inventory No: 0107452. . 9780354041836