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    • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson. Goodreads Rating: 4.29 / 5. Released on February 25, 2020 by Crown.
    • Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson. Goodreads Rating 4.11/5. Released on March 3, 2015 by Crown. You’ll be transported back to the fateful 1915 voyage of the Lusitania.
    • The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson. Released on February 11, 2003 by Crown. Chicago’s dazzling 1893 World’s Fair, a testament to human progress, becomes a macabre stage for two contrasting figures: Daniel Burnham, a visionary architect striving for urban utopia, and H.H.
    • In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, by Erik Larson. Goodreads Rating: 3.88 / 5. Released on May 10, 2011 by Crown.
    • Last Voyage
    • Questions Arise
    • Retreating Era
    • Mystery Remains

    Dead Wake is one of the best Erik Larson non-fiction books and the second entry on our Larson book list. RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner, a 787-feet-long grand vessel that on May 7th, 1915 was approaching British coastlines in what turned out to be its last New York-Liverpool voyage. When it was 11 miles from the coast, the passengers aboar...

    One of the great sailing tragedies, along with the Titanic, the sinking of the Lusitania also has political undertones to it that the former was lacking. The Lusitania was struck by a German submarine, it was not an unfortunate accident. Many riddles sprung up around the catastrophe, questions with no answers that Larson tries to shed some light on...

    U-boot or submarine warfare was a deadly novelty to be reckoned with, and the gentleman’s former war etiquette that prevented military officials from attacking civilians belonged to a rapidly retreating era. What caused the second explosion that was clearly felt on deck, when the German submarine fired only once? Why was the rescue ship called back...

    The mystery remains, though, as to how much of this event can be attributed to a twist of fate, and how much is due to political cunning and machinations. Well-researched and well-written, Larson manages to make past events spring back to life with his unique style. No wonder it is one of Larson’s best-selling books. We think that it might be even ...

  1. Books by Erik Larson. Erik Larson is an American journalist and author of award-winning nonfiction books. “Larson just has a wonderful eye for detail. And he has a way of showing how a crime is not an isolated incident but part of the larger fabric of society.”.

    • Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Amazon: 1. LibraryThing: 1. “On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, 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.
    • Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. Amazon: 3. LibraryThing: 2. “At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America.
    • The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Amazon: 4. LibraryThing: 3.
    • In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin. Amazon: 4. LibraryThing: 4. “The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
  2. historical. audiobook. Erik Larson is an American journalist and author of mostly nonfiction books. He has written a number of bestsellers, including The Devil in the White City, about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders by H. H. Holmes that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair. Wikipedia.

  3. No One Goes Alone. Erik’s first venture into fiction is an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history.

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  5. Oct 6, 2023 · Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order. Erik has written a total of 9 narrative non-fiction so far, and few of them have become the New York Times Bestsellers. I will be listing the books in their publication order below for you to check out. I will also briefly describe all the novels to give you an overview.