Preston, Diana

Chronicles the forty-seven years between the discovery of radium by Marie Curie in 1898 and the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, and presents a profile of the people who played a role in the development of atomic power including Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, Werner Heisenberg, and other.

Describes the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine's torpedo, which claimed 1,200 casualties and moved the United States away from neutrality and toward participation in World War I.

Chronicles the events that occurred during the two-month siege of eleven foreign ministries in Peking and the foreign community of Tientsin during the summer of 1900.

Chronicles the events that occurred during the two-month siege of eleven foreign ministries in Peking and the foreign community of Tientsin during the summer of 1900.

On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a German U-boat, the U-20. She exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred passengers and crew. Besides hastening the United States' entry into World War I, the sinking of the Lusitania became a pivotal moment in history and the repercussions of this sinking affected Germany, the United States, Britain, and Europe, far into the 20th century.

An account of the World War I German torpedo attack on and sinking of the passenger liner, the Lusitania, describing the experiences of some of those involved.