Most of us think we know the story of the 1915 sinking of British luxury liner Lusitania by a German U-boat. But bestselling nonfiction writer Erik Larson (“In the Garden of Beasts,” “The Devil in the White City”) brings fresh detail and suspenseful immediacy to the recounting of events as he moves back and forth between the ship and the U-boat fixing it in its sights. You can see the Monitor's full review of "Dead Wake" here.
