A Night to Remember
by Walter Lord
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Author: Walter LordIntroduction: Nathaniel Philbrick
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-07
ISBN: 0805077642
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Book Review: "God himself could not sink this ship"
Summary: 5 Stars
Sunday, the 14th of April, 1912. The Titanic, on her maiden voyage, struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. By 2:20 a.m. she had slipped under the sea. There were unheeded ice warnings from other ships. Her lifeboats were lowered, each far from filled to capacity. As she was listing to port and sinking at the bow, the crew of the Californian watched the strange ship's flares from only ten miles away, their wireless set shut down for the night. When her lights disappeared for good, the Californian decided she had steamed away. There were over one thousand five hundred souls lost.
Those are the facts you do know. Author Walter Lord delves deeper than just the historical facts in this spellbinding account. He successfully recreates the feeling of what it was like that tragic night on the ill-fated ship. There was gallantry, bravery and contemplation that fateful night. Mr. Guggenheim changing to evening dress. Mr. Ryerson insisting his wife's maid take his life belt. The firemen manning the boilers until the last possible second. Mr. Andrews, the ship's builder, alone and motionless in the smoking room, absorbed in his thoughts, his life belt tossed aside. The band played ragtime.
Mr. Lord has pieced together a fascinating account of the fateful events via painstaking research that brings us the events as they happened, minute by minute, from before the initial collision through the rescue by the Carpathia. His account is based on personal interviews with dozens of survivors, both passengers and crew, with whom he had "haunting conversations," making his vivid reconstruction of the events possible. The author also examined several thousand pages of official testimony given to the U.S. and British enquiries, as well as seeking out passengers' memoirs and periodical interviews.
And yet a bit of mystery remains. Mr. Lord notes, "The words quoted are given exactly as people remember them being spoken. Yet, there is a margin for error." Often, various people will remember a shared event somewhat differently, and Mr. Lord makes note of these discrepancies in his book. However, one thing is certain: the Titanic changed history in many ways. At the time, many saw the Titanic disaster as the end of an era. People felt small again. The Titanic had been declared unsinkable. Some felt man had become too big for his britches, and that this tragedy was a wake-up call for humanity. A unique legend was born that momentous night, one that has fascinated for generations. Walter Lord has created a classic and has done an admirable job of recording that fateful night's events for all to remember.
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