The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria by Greg King

Andrea Doria represented the romance of travel, the possibility of new lives in the new world, and the glamour of 1950s art, culture, and life. Now, Greg King and Penny Wilson offer a fresh look at this glittering liner and her untimely end. Her loss signaled the end of the golden era of ocean liner travel. Audiences witnessed it all: the unthinkable collision of two modern vessels equipped with radar perilous hours of uncertainty the heroic rescue of passengers, and the final gasp as the pride of the Italian fleet slipped beneath the Atlantic, taking some fifty lives with her. Unlike the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster of the modern age. In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. A hundred years after her si nking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery.In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - a nd her gilded passengers - to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carryin g millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writer s and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. Cover worn.On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous pas sengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US ent ry into World War I.

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The goal of Atlantis Magazine is both to inform readers and to encourage writers in their own researches on any subject related to the sphere of Russian interest from the 12th Century to 1918: the Romanov Dynasty the House of Rurik the aristocracy general and military history cultural life, art and architecture Orthodoxy Imperial and aristocratic palaces and country estates museums and much more. Color printed softcovers in fine condition.

Volume 2, Number 2 has a 5-page fold-out floor plans for the Grand-Ducal Neues Palais in Darmstadt. Includes Volume 2, Number 2 Volume 3, Numbers 1 - 4 Volume 4, Numbers 1-3 Special Fate of the Romanovs Issue and Crimean Photo Album. Riverside, CA: Greg King & Penny Wilson, 2000.

The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria by Greg King