A Night to Remember (Holt Paperback)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805077642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 182 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Truly a Deluxe Edition" according to Thomas M. White. When I first read A Night to Remember it was a very thin Bantam edition that would fit in your pocket, and I don't know why I picked it up, unless it was the painting on the cover of the ship raising its stern above the water. Well, that would be an attraction for a 12-year old boy already fascinated by history and the sea (although, specifically, naval warfare). It was the beginning of a life-long obsession with the Titanic. I'm no. which I reread after 40 years is just as good as it was the first time R. Warner This book which I reread after 40 years is just as good as it was the first time. It's real. It says much about human foibles, It says much about the real consequences of mistakes in judgement.. "Best Book Ever on Titanic" according to Terry Anderson. Best book I've ever read about the Titanic disaster. Details never read in other books and articles
When the ship hits the berg, passengers see "tiny splinters of ice in the air, fine as dust, that give off myriads of bright colors whenever caught in the glow of the deck lights." Survivors saw dawn reflected off other icebergs in a rainbow of shades, depending on their angle toward the sun: pink, mauve, white, deep blue--a landscape so eerie, a little boy tells his mom, "Oh, Muddie, look at the beautiful North Pole with no Santa Claus on it." A Titanic funnel falls, almost hitting a lifeboat--and consequently washing it 30 yards away from the wreck, saving all lives aboard. Ja
From the initial distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, this semicentennial edition brings that moonlit night in 1912 to life for a new generation of readers.. Available for the first time in trade paperback and with a new introduction for the 50th anniversary edition by Nathaniel Phil-brick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Sea of Glory, Walter Lord's classic minute-by-minute re-creation is as vivid now as it was upon first publication fifty years ago. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in lifeboats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in f