Larson's narration in this historical nonfiction was phenomenal. More often than not, victims of tragedies are presented to us in numbers and remnants of their humanity die with them, but not with Erik Larson. Through careful telling of the events that led up to one of the greatest maritime disasters of all time, inevitably making the U.S. enter WW1, Dead Wake resurfaced (no pun intended) the humanity of once the fastest British passenger ship in history and the disastrous events that unfurled afterwards.