In this episode we look at the sinking of the Lusitania, a British passenger liner that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, killing over a thousand people, including 128 Americans, and helping move the then neutral United States toward joining the Allied powers. 

Sources for this episode are:

"Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy" by Diana Preston

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2008/february/truth-about-tonkin

Music in this episode is courtesy of musopen.org

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