Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town

By John Welshman

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199595577
• ISBN13: 9780199595570
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"