Desperate Hours
The Epic Rescue of the "Andrea Doria"
Published on 1. October 2001
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-471-38934-7 (ISBN)
Description
In the tradition of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember, a dramatic moment-by-moment account of the greatest peacetime sea rescue in history
Advance Praise for Desperate Hours
"A stupendous feat of reportage. Goldstein has virtually put us into lifeboats and sent us hurtling into the North Atlantic on the night of July 25, 1956." ?Ron Powers, cowriter, Flags of Our Fathers, and author of Dangerous Water and Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore
"Riveting. A vivid reconstruction of the chain of small events leading to a disaster and its impact on a rich cast of characters from a vanished era." ?Neil Hanson, author of The Custom of the Sea
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Turner Publishing Company
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
illustrations facsimiles, maps, portraits
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-38934-7 (9780471389347)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
RICHARD GOLDSTEIN is an editor and writer for the New York Times, where he has worked since 1980. He is the author of America at D-Day and Mine Eyes Have Seen: A First-Person History of the Events That Shaped America, which was an alternate selection of the Literary Guild. He lives in White Plains, New York.
Content
Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I: THE VOYAGE 1. "Brace Yourself". 2. "A Floating Art Gallery". 3. "Take the Doria, You'll Never Forget It". 4. "A Picture of Scandinavian Efficiency". 5. "The Times Square of the Atlantic". 6. "Each Shall Alter Her Course to Starboard". PART II: THE COLLISION. 7. "Why Doesn't He Whistle?" 8. "I Think We Hit an Iceberg". 9. "Don't Worry, There's Nothing Wrong". 10. "Need Immediate Assistance". PART III: THE RESCUE. 11. "This Is No Drill". 12. "How Many Lifeboats?" 13. "We Are Bending Too Much". 14. "Let's Pray to St. Ann". 15. "We Won't Leave You". 16. "Lady, You're Lucky to Be Alive". 17. "Light Up Everything, Quickly". 18. "You Have to Have Courage". 19. "Get Your Cameras". 20. "Bulletin ... Bulletin ... Bulletin". 21. "You May Go, I'm Staying". 22. "Seaworthiness Nil". 23. "That Thing's Going Down in Five Minutes". 24. "It Is Incomprehensible". 25. "How Good God Is to Me". 26. "Oh, What a Climax". 27. "It's My Baby". 28. "I Lost My Love for Italians". 29. "This Is a Jumbled Story". PART IV: THE QUESTIONS. 30. "The Passengers Were Highly Excitable". 31. "It Could Have Been a Patch of Fog". 32. "The Stability of the Ship Was Low". 33. "I Could Have Changed Course". PART V: THE MEMORIES. 34. "Why Did I Get Spared?" 35. "The Poor Man Was Destroyed". PART VI: THE SHIPWRECK. 36. "It's Got the Mystique". Appendix. Sources. Index.