Thunderstruck
Recommended by Timothy J. Jorgensen, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #9 in Forensic Medicine, Ranked #18 in Italian History — see more rankings.
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush."
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build... more
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.
Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build... more
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Timothy J. Jorgensen I chose this book because radio waves are a type of radiation. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Thunderstruck is ranked in the following categories:
- #95 in England History
- #63 in Historical Nonfiction
- #37 in Invention
- #23 in Inventors
- #48 in Mathematician Biography
- #80 in True Crime
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