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A Night to Remember

By Walter Lord

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780553278279

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She was the world's biggest-ever ship.  A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time.  Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, wContinue

She was the world's biggest-ever ship.  A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time.  Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers.  A Night To Remember is the gut-wrenching, minute-by minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and worst in human nature.  Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival.  Wives beseeched husbands to join them in the boats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped belowdecks. Sought help in vain.

A Night To Remember

From the first distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, here is the legendary disaster relived by the few who survived and can never forget the many who did not.

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  • A Night To Remember, By Walter Lord

    In their Titanic dramas, both James Cameron and Julian Fellowes rested heavily on this pioneering oral history of "the last night of a small town" (Walter Lord's phrase). Writing in 1955, Lord interviewed 63 survivors, passengers and crew. He stitche ... (read full critics)

    independent published on Fri, 13 Apr 2012

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  • "The most detailed report on that night" - true!

    An incredibly easy reading and an amazingly detailed report on that awful night. Despite this book being now ove 50 years old, the author describes facts and details with a style as fresh as any contemporary reporter. Not a name is forgotten and every single event is linked to the others in a massiv ... (continue)

    An incredibly easy reading and an amazingly detailed report on that awful night. Despite this book being now ove 50 years old, the author describes facts and details with a style as fresh as any contemporary reporter. Not a name is forgotten and every single event is linked to the others in a massive jigsaw offering us as a full view of those few hours as possible.
    Suspence increases as the ship goes down, til the very unfatomable, well known epilogue.

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    Drawy82 said on May 13, 2012 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • A NOVEL READ ON AN OLD SUBJECT

    The ultimate book on a overwritten subject. Wonderful reporting, honest, unsentimental, truthful. The joy was in the details. Unforgettable images. It mast have smart the writer to have the same last name of the captain of the ship who omitted help that could have saved hundreds.

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    Ignominia said on May 3, 2012 about the School & Library Binding edition | Add your feedback

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