Remember the Tuscania: The Sinking, Its Aftermath, and a Century of Public Memory - Couverture rigide

Trout, Steven

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ISBN 10 : 1501788949 ISBN 13 : 9781501788949

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Remember the Tuscania plunges readers into the night of February 5, 1918, when a German U-boat's torpedo found a crowded US troopship in the North Atlantic―and into the century of argument, propaganda, and remembrance that followed. At its heart are the Baraboo Twenty-One, citizen-soldiers from a Wisconsin town who survived the sinking that became the deadliest U-boat attack on Americans in the First World War and the nation's first mass-casualty event of the conflict.

Steven Trout braids military history and cultural history with a dramatic pulse. He reconstructs the voyage and catastrophe in detail. Then he follows the aftershocks across newspapers, posters, cartoons, poems, and sheet music as the home front seizes on a new rallying cry – "Remember the Tuscania!" – and turns the dead into usable symbols. Trout also exposes a War Department fiasco over casualty lists that helped force reforms to identification practices (serial numbers on dog tags; rosters kept at hand aboard transports).

Remember the Tuscania draws attention to how people memorialize dramatic wartime events: the isle of Islay's windswept "American Monument," improvised funerals beneath a hastily sewn Stars and Stripes, the formation of the National Tuscania Survivors Association, and a twenty-first-century resurrection of the story back in Baraboo. Trout shows how myth overtook messy reality and how private grief often resisted public pageantry.

Trout's narrative is a riveting, deeply researched investigation that showcases the meaning for Americans of a nearly forgotten disaster and the unbreakable ties of transatlantic remembrance that it left behind.

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À propos de l'auteur

Steven Trout is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century American literature, cultural studies, and memory studies. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1501788949
• ISBN 13: 9781501788949
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible