

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: History Book Club hybrid meeting
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson is the March book for the History Book Club. Join in person at the Civic Center Library in the Board Room or via Zoom: https://bit.ly/lplhbc on March 17 at 7 p.m. Registration is not necessary to attend in person or on Zoom.

Book Summary: "On May 1, 1915, 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 anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. He knew, moreover, that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat.

Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history.

It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle to President Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war." 

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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Livermore
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1188 S Livermore Ave, Livermore, CA, United States, California 94550
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- **full address**: 1188 S Livermore Ave, Livermore, CA, United States, California 94550

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- **organizer**: Livermore Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/livermore-public-library/12068743)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1188 S Livermore Ave, Livermore, CA, United States, California 94550
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Livermore Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** meetups, art, performances, fine-arts, theatre, entertainment
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