How to pronounce “lusitania” in English

The "Lusitania" is coming.

The "Lusitania," remember, was a British ship that happened to have American passengers on board.

Why has the "Lusitania" not received the same intrigue as something like the "Titanic?"

He came over on the "Lusitania."

It was not aimed specifically at the "Lusitania," and frankly, it was in there that day strictly by chance.

And they were not to sink the "Lusitania," they were to sink any large troop transport that he encountered.

I became aware-- they have a modest "Lusitania" collection.

In the case of the "Lusitania," the new, frankly, is the telling.

The "Lusitania" came about in sort of an unusual way, because it's not the kind of thing that I might typically want to do.

But I'd always been interested in the "Lusitania."

was interpreted that the ad was aimed at the "Lusitania."

There's other vessels that are coming before the "Lusitania."

Maybe if the "Titanic" had never sunk, the "Lusitania" might be a more prominent thing in people's eyes.

Both of the passengers and crew that are heading out on the "Lusitania," but then also the folks in Britain and around the world who are monitoring

One of the many weird chance things that happened in association with the "Lusitania."

OK, so what did they know as the "Lusitania" was actually making the voyage?

Room 40 knew a lot about the submarine that ultimately sank the "Lusitania."

And this is before the "Lusitania" is-- This is well before the "Lusitania," yeah.

to talk about today, "Dead Wake - The Last Crossing of the Lusitania" is now number one on "The New York Times" Best Sellers list.

However, there is this accumulation of really interesting evidence about-- the "Lusitania"

When he asked for that from Congress, he never once mentioned the "Lusitania," because so many other things had happened in the interim,

But that was one of things that made me a little bit hesitant about doing a book about the "Lusitania," was the fact that it had, obviously, been done before.

So what's the process you go through to pick your subject material, and how did you stumble across the "Lusitania?"

I think, frankly, a lot of it does have to do with the fact the "Titanic" predated the "Lusitania."

But I think another factor is that we're all taught-- well, I can't speak for everybody here-- but I know I was taught about the "Lusitania"

In a European survey history course, where the "Lusitania" was that was a dusty geopolitical node

Now, in "The New York World" this ad was right next to Cunard's add for the "Lusitania."

And what was going on then, really, was first of all, there was this belief that the "Lusitania" was too big.

Early on, he had said in a book that sort of glancingly dealt with it, he said that the failure to do more with the intelligence with regard to the "Lusitania"

He was never told that nightly, at midnight, the big German transmitter at Norddeich routinely broadcast the comings and goings of the "Lusitania"

And that was the depth, and richness, and texture of the material available about the "Lusitania," seemed to offer me

And we will talk a little bit about the Captain and Commander of U-boat 20, and the "Lusitania."

And Schwieger himself had that experience on this patrol, which makes it actually even more remarkable that he actually did manage to sink the "Lusitania."

personally, I had shared a vast misconception, which was that the Lusitania was the World War I