The Dead Wake by Erik Larson is about the last crossing of the Lusitania. Larson talks from both sides of the story, Washington and Germany. This is a really good book because Larson gives lots of detail and imagery. In the Dead Wake, Captain William Turner is talked about a lot. Captain Turner was the captain when the Lusitania was torpedoed by the Germans and sank. Captain William Turner was captain of many ships, but most importantly he was the captain for the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat, which was one of the key factors that led the United States into entering the war. Captain Turner was born in October 23, 1856, “in the age of sail and empire,” (Larson). His father was a sea captain and had hoped that Turner would chose different. Turner’s first serving job was on a sailing ship called the Grasmere. Moving from ship to ship, Turner grew a passion of becoming a captain of a ship one day. Before being the Captain of the Lusitania, he served and was captain of many other vessels. Turner served as third officer on two Cunard Ships but later resigned after learning that the company never promoted a man to captain unless he’d be master of a ship before joining the company. Later he built his credentials, earned his maters…show more content… The perspective would change sometimes and so sometimes I’d get confused on which perspective I was reading from. The story of the fall of the Lusitania isn’t a very interesting story to begin with, but Erik Larson transformed it to be a compelling story that would hook the reader right away. Erik Larson is known for transforming history into novels that keep the reader reading. Some people might say that there was too much detail and that Erik spent too much time on telling you about passengers than the actual sinking of the book. I’d recommend this book to someone who likes to read a very detail book that will keep the story going through
