{"product_id":"remember-the-tuscania-steven-trout-9781501788949","title":"Remember the Tuscania","description":"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. \nSteven 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).\nRemember 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. \nTrout'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.","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67594467410208,"sku":"9781501788949","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781501788949_3103956.jpg?v=1790665414","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/remember-the-tuscania-steven-trout-9781501788949","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}