Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198786498)

In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-lived floating town.

They include members of the crew; passengers in First, Second, and Third Class; women and men; adults and children; rich and poor. Among them are a ship's Captain, a Second Officer, an Assistant Wireless Operator; a Stewardess, an amateur military historian, a governess, a teacher, a domestic servant, a mother, and three children. What were their earlier histories? Who survived, and why, and who perished? And what happened to these people in the years after 1912?

Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town answers all these questions and more, while offering a minute-by-minute depiction of events aboard the doomed liner through the eyes of a broad and representative cross-section of those who sailed in her - both those who survived and those who didn't.

Author: John Welshman
ISBN-10: 0198786492
ISBN-13: 9780198786498
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2017
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.90w x 1.30d