The Titanic
Disaster of a Century
Published on 21. March 2012
300 pages
978-1-62087-298-7 (ISBN)
Description
In this centennial edition of the definitive book on the Titanic, new findings, photos, and interviews shed light on the world's most famous marine disaster for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking.
On that fatal night in 1912 the world's largest moving object disappeared beneath the waters of the North Atlantic in less than three hours. Why was the ship sailing through waters well known to be a "mass of floating ice?? Why were there too few lifeboats? Why were a third of the survivors crew members? Based on the sensational evidence of the U.S. Senate hearings, eyewitness accounts, and the results of the 1985 Woods Hole expedition that photographed the ship, this electrifying account vividly recreates the vessel's last desperate hours afloat and fully addresses the questions that have continued to haunt the tragedy of the Titanic.
On that fatal night in 1912 the world's largest moving object disappeared beneath the waters of the North Atlantic in less than three hours. Why was the ship sailing through waters well known to be a "mass of floating ice?? Why were there too few lifeboats? Why were a third of the survivors crew members? Based on the sensational evidence of the U.S. Senate hearings, eyewitness accounts, and the results of the 1985 Woods Hole expedition that photographed the ship, this electrifying account vividly recreates the vessel's last desperate hours afloat and fully addresses the questions that have continued to haunt the tragedy of the Titanic.
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Wyn Craig Wade (1944-2006), a clinical psychologist by training, wrote The Titanic: End of a Dream and The Fiery Cross.Robertson Dean has recorded hundreds of audiobooks in almost every genre. He's been nominated for several Audie Awards, won nine Earphones Awards, and was named one of AudioFile magazine's Best Voices of 2010. He lives in Los Angeles, where he records books and acts in film, TV, and (especially) on stage.
Content
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Editor's Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Prologue
- PART ONE Midnight Crossing
- 1 Monster Ship
- 2 Bon Voyage
- 3 The Backwash Ashore
- 4 Homecoming
- 5 Journey's End
- PART TWO The Investigation
- 6 A Bobbing Sort of Cuss
- 7 The Congressional Limited
- 8 The New York Hearings (1)
- 9 The New York Hearings (2)
- 10 Back in Washington
- 11 Collision
- 12 Calumny
- 13 Twenty Boats and a Quiet Sea
- 14 Dies Irae
- 15 "Pull for the Shore, Sailor"
- 16 The Californian Incident
- 17 Corporate Culpability
- PART THREE Sea Change
- 18 "A New Birth of Vigilance"
- 19 The American Inquiry and the Law
- 20 End of a Dream
- Feuilleton
- Bibliography
- Index
