The most page-turning, accessible account of the most iconic maritime tragedy ever, A Night to Remember focuses on the intense human drama on deck as the mighty RMS Titanic sunk beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.' - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President.
On April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives. Walter Lord's classic bestselling history of the voyage, the wreck and the aftermath is a tour de force of detailed investigation and the upstairs/downstairs divide.
A Night to Remember provides a vivid, gripping and deeply personal account of the 'unsinkable' Titanic's descent.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141399690
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 183 g
Dimensions: 199 x 131 x 12 mm
A stunning book, incomparably the best on its subject - New York Times
Walter single-handedly revived interest in the Titanic...an electrifying book - John Maxtone-Graham, maritime historian and author
Absolutely gripping and unputdownable - David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Devotion, gallantry...Benjamin Guggenheim changing to evening clothes to meetdeath; Mrs. Isador Straus clinging to her husband, refusing to get in a lifeboat; Arthur Ryerson giving his life belt to his wife's maid...A book to remember - Chicago Tribune
Seamless and skilful...it's clear why this is many a researcher's Titanic bible - Entertainment Weekly
Enthralling from the first word to the last - The Atlantic Monthly
Moving and extremely well-documented - Oxford Mail
Fascinating book about the 1912 disaster of the Titanic. Its frightening to realise that so many people don't know that this is a tragic reality, thinking it was a story made up for the movie... a sad indictment... More
This is the story of the Titanic's fatal voyage that the famous film is based on, originally written in 1955. Despite watching he film first, I still got lost in the writing and found the detail much better than... More
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