{"product_id":"remember-the-tuscania-steven-trout-9781501788949","title":"Remember the Tuscania: The Sinking, Its Aftermath, and a Century of Public Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemember the Tuscania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven 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 \u003ci\u003eTuscania\u003c\/i\u003e!\"--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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRemember the Tuscania \u003c\/i\u003edraws 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrout'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Trout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501788949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501788949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.11h x 6.43w x 0.82d","brand":"Steven Trout","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49097247686911,"sku":"9781501788949","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remember-the-tuscania-steven-trout-9781501788949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}