Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner

This is a book unlike any other. Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative, and rarely investigated components of the story, including dramatic survivors' accounts of the events of the fateful night, the role of newly in-vented wireless telecommunication in the disaster, the construction and its ramifications at the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, and the dawn rendezvous with the rescue ship Carpathia. Richly written and vividly detailed, this is the book Titanic buffs have been waiting for.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/19/2012
ISBN: 9780393082401
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/24/2011 pg. 42
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2011
Booklist 02/01/2012 pg. 19
Library Journal 03/01/2012 pg. 109