(036333) Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 430 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 mi (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland. The sinking presaged the United States declaration of war on Germany in 1917 ISBN: 9780307408860 (Lusitania (Steamship, Naval Operations, Germany, Shipping)