The Innocence Campaign
Isabel Hull: The Sinking of the ‘Lusitania’, 2 February 2017
‘Lusitania’: The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
by Willi Jasper, translated by Stewart Spencer.
Yale, 233 pp., £18.99, September 2016,978 0 300 22138 1 Show More
by Willi Jasper, translated by Stewart Spencer.
Yale, 233 pp., £18.99, September 2016,
“... United States finally, reluctantly joined the war on the Allied side, as it had warned it would. Willi Jasper, the author of this absorbing book, argues that ‘the sinking of the Lusitania was the “seminal catastrophe” of both world wars, marking, as it did, the beginning of a process whereby totalitarian violence lost all of its inhibitions and ... ”
