The First World War: The Submarine Strikes (TRIH ep 673, part 3)
1915 · Resource
In this third episode of their 1915 series, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915. They trace the ship’s construction, its role as a fast Cunard liner, and the political context of German U‑boat warfare, including the shift toward unrestricted attacks after a February 1915 war‑zone declaration.
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- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
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