This is the conclusion of our four part series on RMS Lusitania, meaning it is also the conclusion to Season Two of Beyond the Breakers. We discuss contemporary reactions to the sinking, the inquiry headed by Lord Mersey, and explanations about how this tragedy occurred in the way that it did.

Thank you for all the listens, the support, and the interactions on social media this season. We look forward to bringing you Season Three next year.

Sources:

“Atrocity and the Lusitania.” The Advocate of Peace, vol. 77, no. 6, June 1915, p. 129.

Beesly, Patrick (1982). Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918. Long Acre, London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd

Gullace, Nicoletta E. “Friends, Aliens, and Enemies: Fictive Communities and the Lusitania Riots of 195.” Journal of Social History, Winter 2005, pp. 345 - 363.

Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts’: German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.

Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015.

“The Lusitania’s ‘Guns’. The New York Times Current History of the European War, vol. 2, no. 4, July 1915, pp. 623 - 631

Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. Walker, 2002.
 
Stack, Liam. “The Lusitania Telegraph Has Been Recovered, but It May Not Solve Any Mysteries.” The New York Times, 3 Aug 2017.

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