Alfred Vanderbilt
Books
- Eighteen Minutes The Sinking of the Lusitania and the Eighteen Minutes That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On May 7, 1915, a single torpedo from U-20 struck the Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale.
- Captain Turner’s Orders…that the record preserves. Charles Lauriat, the Boston bookseller and publisher, traveling with business papers and a collection of prints. Alfred Vanderbilt, the American railway heir, traveling without his valet, who had missed the sailing. Theodate Pope, the Connecticut architect and philanthr…
- The Names on the Pier…relentless and it was public. A reader opening a newspaper in London or New York on 11 or 12 May 1915 would find, side by side, the name of Alfred Vanderbilt and the name of a stewardess from Liverpool, the name of a theatrical producer and the name of a child from Illinois. The lists did not dis…