![]() Guglielmo Marconi is an inventor working on transmitting messages from a sender to a receiver without wires. Thunderstruck was available as an audiobook when I was painting rooms and I learned a lot from this book, too. ![]() Dead Wake told the tale of the sinking of the Lusitania and I learned a lot from that book. He has the gift of bringing history alive to read like a fiction novel. Without that, he would have escaped by boat from Europe to Canada and lived happily with his mistress.Īfter reading Dead Wake by Erik Larsen, I knew I had to read more of his books. Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen tells the true story of when a murder suspect was caught only by the means of the latest technology of the day finally working. Amidst the race to get wireless technology to transmit messages across the ocean, society is giving way to women who dye their hair and have lovers on the side without fear. ![]() In the early 1900s, the world is changing rapidly. ![]() ![]() “Within twenty-four hours Captain Kendall would discover that his ship had become the most famous vessel afloat and that he himself had become the subject of breakfast conversation from Broadway in New York to Piccadilly in London.” ![]()
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