Titanic by John Welshman
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.
As thorough and yet compassionate an account as the disaster is ever likely to haveOpen Letters Monthly
John Welshman is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century British social history and has held posts at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and York. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. His latest book, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain (2010), is also published by Oxford University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199595570 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199595577 |
| Title | Titanic |
| Author | John Welshman |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2012-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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