A Night to Remember - Brossura

Lord, Walter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553278274 ISBN 13: 9780553278279

Casa editrice: Bantam Books, 1998

Riassunto

An absorbing, minute-by-minute account of the demise of the "unsinkable" Titanic, the massive luxury liner that housed a French "sidewalk cafe" and a grand staircase, among other extravagances, but failed to provide enough lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers on board. Reissue.

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"Devotion, gallantry--Benjamin Guggenheim changing to evening clothes to meet death; Mrs. Isador Straus clinging to her husband, refusing to get in a lifeboat; Arthur Ryerson giving his life belt to his wife's maid-- it is a book to remember."
-- Chicago Tribune

"One of the most exciting books of this or any year."
-- The New York Times

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

She was the world's biggest-ever ship.  A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titantic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time.  Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titantic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers.  A Night To Remember is the gut-wrenching, minute-by minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and worst in human nature.  Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival.  Wives beseeched husbands to join them in the boats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped belowdecks. Sought help in vain.

A Night To Remember

From the first distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, here is the legendary disaster relived by the few who survived and can never forget the many who did not.

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• Editore: Bantam Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553278274
• ISBN 13: 9780553278279
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 209