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  Salt to the Sea // Ruta Sepetys !!!Spoiler Free!!! Genre ~ Historical, YA, Fiction Page # ~ 391 ISBN ~  0399160302 Published ~ 02/02/2016 Rating  ~  ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ (4.5) (⚠Trigger Warning⚠: mentions of rape) Synopsis ~                While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety from the advancing Red Army. The ship was overcrowded with more than 10,500 passengers — the intended capacity was approximately 1,800 — and more than 9,000 people, including 5,000 children, lost their lives.                Sepetys (writer of Between Shades of Gray ) crafts four fictionalized but historically accurate voices to convey the real-life tragedy. Joana, a Lithuanian with nursing experience; Florian, a Prussian soldier fleeing the Nazis w