Author:  Erik Larson
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NOW FIVE DAYS into its voyage, the Lusitania made its way toward Britain alone, with no escort offered or planned, and no instruction to take the newly opened and safer North Channel route-this despite the fact that the ship carried a valuable cache of rifle cartridges and desperately needed shrapnel shells.

( Erik Larson )
[ Dead Wake: The Last Crossing ]
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