Voices from the Carpathia: Rescuing RMS Titanic
Published on 4. May 2015
320 pages
978-0-7509-6464-7 (ISBN)
Description
When Titanic began sending out distress calls, one of the first to reply was the Cunard liner Carpathia. As it turned out, Carpathia was the only vessel to reach the scene in time to save the lives of any of Titanic's passengers, and, after she arrived in New York, reporters crowded the pier and vied with each other to obtain interviews with the survivors of the disaster. In their zeal to interview survivors, though, the reporters brushed past other people who could have provided their own eyewitness accounts - namely, Carpathia's own passengers, largely left to their own devices as to how and when they discussed their participation in events. A few wrote letters to relatives, others wrote accounts intended for publication. The author's collection of these rare written accounts and interviews sheds new light on the tragic way the lives of so many were impacted by the loss of the largest passenger liner in the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
2,43 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-6464-7 (9780750964647)
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05/2015
The History Press Ltd
€34.00
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Person
GEORGE BEHE is a past vice president of the Titanic Historical Society. He has been interviewed and acted as a consultant for many documentaries and Titanic books, and has written numerous articles for the Titanic Historical Society's journal The Commutator. He has also been fortunate to have been able to count more than a dozen Titanic survivors among his personal friends. He has written On Board RMS Titanic and Voices from the Carpathia for The History Press.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Carpathia Passenger and Crew Letters
- 2 Carpathia Passenger and Crew Interviews
- 3 Documents from Other Vessels
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
