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The sinking of the Lusitania is an event that not only marked an important historical shift for the United States and left many grieving, but it is also one of the more mysterious happenings of the century, for the sole reason that a thick, grey and seemingly never-ending mist surrounds the truth of what happened. To reconstruct the event from the perspective of all those involved is much easier said and done; the questions keep on piling up while most answers remain shaky in their foundation.

Erik Larson has already established himself as one of the most interesting authors on an international scale, with real masterpieces such as Devil in the White City , perhaps his most famous work to date. Well, after having explored serial killing and Chicago at the turn of the century, Erik Larson set his sights on 1933 Berlin and the troubles an American family is going through while trying to survive under the rising Nazi movement.

In 1893, not long after Jack the Ripper’s killings , a large number of young women (the numbers provide an estimate between 27 and 200) were killed by a sadistic maniac who was known as a very charming doctor who went by the name of H.H. Holmes.