John Maxtone-Graham

Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner

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This is a book unlike any other. Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative, and rarely investigated components of the story, including dramatic survivors' accounts of the events of the fateful night, the role of newly in-vented wireless telecommunication in the disaster, the construction and its ramifications at the famous Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, and the dawn rendezvous with the rescue ship Carpathia. Richly written and vividly detailed, this is the book Titanic… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-08240-1
EAN: 9780393082401
Produktnummer: 11229489
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.5 cm 363 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 363

Über den Autor

John Maxtone-Graham (1929-2015) wrote many books on trans-Atlantic ocean travel, among them Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner, Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner, and The Only Way to Cross.