The Lusitania: Unraveling its Mysteries, by Patrick O'Sullivan

The Lusitania: Unraveling its Mysteries, by Patrick O'Sullivan
The Collins Press, Ireland, 1998 (first published in the US, Sheridan House, 2000)
183 pages, plus Archival Sources, Bibliography and Index.
No photographs
Library: 940.4 OSU

Back Matter
The sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania is, together with the Titanic disaster, probably the best-known and most written about sea tragedy of our time. On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was struck by a torpedo fired from a German submarine and sank within 20 minutes; 1,198 people drowned, including 128 Americans. Profound indignation over the attack contributed to the United States' entry into World War I.

Mystery and controversy have surrounded this disaster ever since. Now, after unearthing new evidence through two decades of research, Patrick O'Sullivan asserts that the Lusitania was indeed a ship of hostile intent that regularly smuggled munitions from the United States to England, using innocent passengers as human shields.

Offering the most compelling theory to date of the Lusitania's baffling second explosion," O'Sullivan further asserts that Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, failed to avert a disaster which the Royal Navy foresaw, that Captain Turner was the scapegoat of a rigged tribunal, and that the sinking triggered a sinister cover-up involving British intelligence

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Hymn to the Lusitania
Preface
Introduction
1. Gathering War Clouds
2. Merchant Ships at War
3. The Majestic Era
4. A Damned Un-English Weapon
5. The Codebreakers
6. A Sinister Silence
7. The Town of the Dead
8. The Sham Tribunals
9. Munitions and Explosives
10. The Aftermath
11. The Mysteries Unravel
Archival Sources
Bibliography
Index