Brooklyn By the Book: Erik Larson with Evan Ratliff

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic.
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