Titanic E-Book
The author has taken a new approach to the most written-about shipwreck of all time. Not only are the biographies of scores of passengers and crew documented, but also the index provides a ready reference to some startling facts about them.
We read of :
* the movie star who was later imprisoned by the Gestapo,
* the officer who went down with the ship only to be blown to the surface to become a war hero and assist in evacuating Dunkirk,
* the children who returned to their flooded cabin for valuables,
* the third-class passengers who struggled past locked gates and sailors,
* the tennis star who refused to have his legs amputated, then became a decorated officer and winner of the Davis Cup with another passenger,
* the telegraphist who fought with a thief in his cabin and died in relative obscurity,
* the rich philanderer who set off to swim to the Californian for assistance,
* the numerous padres and priests who selflessly ministered to those about to die,
* the survivor who dedicated a Harvard library to her lost husband and son,
* the stewardess who survived a further traumatic ship’s sinking two years later,
* the doctor who leaped into a descending boat and broke a woman’s arm.
* the brash American millionaires, Molly Brown, and the aristocratic Countess of Rothes who played leading roles in their respective lifeboats,
* the lady who was criticized for bringing her dog on the lifeboat and leaving her husband behind.
* the sad ends of the lookout who saw the iceberg and the quartermaster who steered.
* The British prime minister’s son who served on the Board of Enquiry into the disaster.
These and many more revelations makes this a book which should be in every Titanic enthusiast’s library.