The Night Lives On
The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" ShipâTitanic
- 250 pages
- English
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The Night Lives On
The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the "Unsinkable" ShipâTitanic
About This Book
In this New York Times bestseller, the author of A Night to Remember and The Miracle of Dunkirk revisits the Titanic disaster. Walter Lord's A Night to Remember was a landmark work that recounted the harrowing events of April 14, 1912, when the British ocean liner RMS Titanic went down in the North Atlantic Ocean, a book that inspired a classic movie of the same name. In The Night Lives On, Lord takes the exploration further, revealing information about the ship's last hours that emerged in the decades that followed, and separating myths from facts. Was the ship really christened before setting sail on its maiden voyage? What song did the band play as water spilled over the bow? How did the ship's wireless operators fail so badly, and why did the nearby Californian, just ten miles away when the Titanic struck the iceberg, not come to the rescue? Lord answers these questions and more, in a gripping investigation of the night when approximately 1, 500 victims were lost to the sea.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. Unsinkable Subject
- II. What's in a Name?
- III. Legendary from the Start
- IV. Had Ships Gotten Too Big for Captain Smith?
- V. "Our Coterie"
- VI. "Everything Was Against Us"
- VII. The Gash
- VIII. "I Was Very Soft the Day I Signed That"
- IX. What Happened to the Goodwins?
- X. Shots in the Dark
- XI. The Sound of Music
- XII. "She's Gone"
- XIII. "The Electric Spark"
- XIV. "A Certain Amount of Slackness"
- XV. Second-guessing
- XVI. Why Was Craganour Disqualified?
- XVII. Unlocking the Ocean's Secret
- Gleanings from the Testimony
- Acknowledgments and Selected Sources
- Index
- Copyright