Discover History’s Most Harrowing Shipwrecks!★ Titanic ★ Lusitania ★ MV Wilhelm Gustloff ★ MB Goya ★ MV Le Joola ★ Costa Concordia ★When you read Richard Bolden’sLusitania, The Titanic, And More Epic Tragedies: Thousands of Lives Dead at Sea, you can test your knowledge of maritime history and revisit (or learn for the very first time) these famous tales of woe.Did the captain of the Titanic really go full steam ahead into iceburg-filled waters? Was the Lusitania really carrying weapons? Can thousands of lives really be lost - in only a few minutes?In splendid detail, Richard Bolden explains the many causes behind these nautical disasters. You’ll learn how class distinctions and separations may have led to the Titanic disaster, what secrets the Lusitania may hold even today to the cause of her sinking, and why passengers on overloaded ships so often pay the ultimate price - both in peacetime and war.Imagine yourself in a disaster at sea—How would you have reacted in a worst-case scenario?Whether caused by weather, overcrowding, vanity, or the weapons of war, nautical disasters can strike anywhere across the world’s oceans. From the Mediterranean to the North Atlantic to the Baltic, in ships grand and small, we humans have paid the priceen massefor underestimating the dangers of the sea.