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100	1		_aSimpson, Colin _d1931-
245	1	4	_aThe Lusitania / _cby Colin Simpson.
260			_aBoston ; _aToronto : _bLittle, Brown and Co., _c1973.
300			_axii, 303 p., [24] pages of plates : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm,.
520			_aOn May 7, 1915, the German U-boat 20 torpedoed and sank the "unarmed" passenger liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing some 1200 men, women, and children--many of them Americans. The world raged at the barbarity of the Kaiser and the German people, and the act did much to precipitate the later entrance of the United States into World War I. This book claims that the Lusitania was unstable, improperly designed, badly staffed, and loaded with munitions for the Allies--and that the British Admiralty, with high American complicity, to an extent created the situation in which the ship could be sunk
650	1	4	_aLusitania (Steamship) World War, 1914-1918 _xNaval operations, German
650	1	4	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xNaval operations _xSubmarine _9163369
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