Lusitania

On May 7, 1915, the German U-boat 20 torpedoed and sank the "unarmed" passenger liner Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale on the southwest coast of Ireland, killing some twelve hundred men, women, and children, may of them Americans. The world raged at the barbarity of the Kaiser and the German people, and the act did much to participate the later entrance of the United States into World War I. But the real truth of the disaster has never been revealed. With explosive and meticulous documentation, London Sunday Times correspondent Colin Simpson unearths the story of a monumental exercise in…