Tom Holland
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Yeah, it's a great story, isn't it, Tom?
A great lesson in leadership, I think, for anybody.
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Yes.
So the Lusitania, everybody, was sailing from New York to Liverpool.
And it was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by a U-boat on the 7th of May, 1915, with the loss of more than a thousand lives.
And as you know, Tom, this became one of the First World War's most emotive stories, but also one of its most controversial.
So it became the subject of all kinds of legends and conspiracy theories.
And actually, rather like the Cthulhu mythos, this became the subject of a mythos itself.
Did it?
A mythos?
A mythos.
Exactly.
But like the story of the Titanic, this is a tremendous human drama.