"Answers questions that have haunted the wreck for eighty-five years, while presenting the context of the disaster in a new light. Instead of being the single incident most responsible for the United States' entry into World War I, he illustrates how by the time America declared war on Germany, the sinking of the Lusitania had become just one more item on a list of German provocations that drove the United States into a war she did not want."--Jacket.