Showing The Lusitania's Last Voyage: Being a Narrative of the Torpedoing and Sinking of the R. M. S Lusitania by a German Submarine off the Irish Coast May 7, 1915 by Charles E. Lauriat Jr.

"The extraordinary part of this narrative about the greatest marine disaster of the ages - greatest because so criminally encompassed - is that it indulges in no heroics, that it dramatizes none of the horrors of the scene, which might easily have been forgiven for the sake of truth. It gains in vividness, in the actual details of what occurred by the absence of this blurring process of emotion which a more excitable chronicler would have given. Charles E. Lauriat tells what happens, from the moment the torpedo struck to his arrival in London, with a continuity of incident, with a clearness of detail, that is impressive.... Mr. Lauriat's narrative is rich in many an episode that brings the terrific suffering and endurance of the passengers vividly to one's sense of what the tragedy was like on its pathetic side. How much he centered in the thrilling experiences he describes, one comes to realize by what he tells of the other brave men and women who were sharing his perils." - Boston Transcript.