Doomed Ships: Great Ocean Liner Disasters (Dover Maritime Books)
by William H. Jr. Miller
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Author: William H. Jr. MillerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-17
ISBN: 0486453669
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Review: More history than drama
Summary: 3 Stars
The book is a very good source of facts and archive pictures. I learned a few things. For instance, it's better to scuttle your ocean liner on an even keel if it catches fire in port, rather than to pump millions of gallons on to the upper decks and tip it over.
The book is laid out as blocks of text around archive black and white pictures of the ships. The text is quite dry and the pictures are sometimes little small. Each block of text on a ship ends with the statistics of size, capacity, speed etc.
It could have told dramatic stories or attempted to group and interpret common themes but it doesn't. Given the subject this would have opened these great stories to a wider audience. I also found one or two minor typos. It's a specialist history source book.
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