Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Titanic The Last Night Of A Small Town
Author(s): Welshman John (Senior Lecturer Department Of History Lancaster University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198786498
Pages: 350 Pages, 16pp Black And White Plate Section
Publication Date: 9/27/2017
Category: Maritime History