By Greg King and Penny Wilson In The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, Greg King and Penny Wilson offer a fresh look at the legendary liner and her tragic fate. Andrea Doria represented the romance of travel, the possibility of new…
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: “A Living Testament to the Importance of Beauty in the Everyday World”
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Posted in Cultural History
Posted in Cultural History
Lessons from the Sinking of the Lusitania
by Greg King As epic human tragedy the story has everything: a great ocean liner; a glittering cast of millionaires, actresses, suffragettes and scandalous lovers; and a terrible disaster played out over eighteen brutal minutes. On the afternoon of May…
Tagged with: captain turner, cruise liner, cunard, great war, greg king, kaiser Wilhelm II, lusitania, titanic, torpedo, u-boat, walther schwieger, wwi
Posted in Military History
by Greg King As epic human tragedy the story has everything: a great ocean liner; a glittering cast of millionaires, actresses, suffragettes and scandalous lovers; and a terrible disaster played out over eighteen brutal minutes. On the afternoon of May…
Posted in Military History
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