Titanic: A Survivor s Story

Very informative and well written

If you really want to know how the Titanic went down, this book is much more accurate and much more entertaining than the movie. If you are looking for entertainment only, then this book is much more entertaining than the 1997 movie. The real life stories of REAL survivors is much more interesting than the made up uninteresting characters in the 1997 film.

Great read! It’s not a big deal but the last 36 pages are duplicates of the beginning of the book. Just a binding error, it reads the same.

I've read many books about the Titanic and this book was engrossing and seemed fact filled. I read it quickly

This book goes into more things about the Titanic and the people on the Titanic than I have read in the other Titanic books--I read it cover to cover in about a day. There was details in this book that were in none of the other books with this subject. It really kept me reading it. The surprise to me was that this book had all of the court details of the people who were really there and told the testimony of what happened----this first hand information was not in any other book I have read about the Titanic.If you want to know what is the real facts of this story please read this book and find out for yourself.Great author and great book!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure, it's told from the position of an older, rich person's perspective, but the tale is quite harrowing, and it was interesting learning about some accounts that happened in each lifeboat and collapsible. Col. Gracie died just 8 months after the disaster, and it's quite amazing that he was able to put this major of a work together in that time period.

interesting

If you are looking for an emotional account of the Titanics first and only crossing this is NOT the book for you. Although most of the details of this famous crossing are tragic, this is more of an accounting of what happened from the moment the Titanic struck the Iceburg to the last passengers recall before a panel of judges what happened in ghost fateful hours.If you enjoy getting into and understanding the minutia of court hearings and witness testimony you will find this very interesting. If not, it will bore you to tears. This accounting begins with one man's story aboard the Titanic and what happened to him personally after the Burg was struck...then goes into great detail of the survivors stories. Story is really not the correct word. The White Star Line needed to get witness statements from every person who survived this tragedy. From the moment they were aware there was a problem; what they were told, how they were treated, how organized were the ship's employee's in getting them from their rooms, assisting with life vests up till and including the moment they were put on a rescue boat then rescued by the luxury liner the Carpathia.A lot of the information is repeated as each person tells what they experienced. They go into great. detail about which rescue boat were they on, who else was on it with them, how many woman and children vs men vs employees of the line were on each boat. How organized were they? We're they prepared? We're lives saved or lost because of any one (or more) man's actions? Was anyone discriminated against? The questions go on and on as do the answers.By the end of this book you will know how many men, woman, children, fireman, customers, etc were on each rescue boat. When each boat left the Titanic, what kind of people were the occupants of each boat, who were the heroes and who were the simpering cowards.You'll discover some fascinating new facts about the sinking of the Titanic and about the character of the people which up till now we only have known through movie representations. I definitely know more about what really happened those few hrs and by the end of the book you realize that this isn't just a story, these are not just facts about who was on which boat or who said to go back to find more survivors or who bribed them with money to NOT go back etc. By time you get to the end it hits you that this was a living breathing person. It wasn't just a block buster movie. These were people who needed to know why their loved ones had to die that night just as much as the victims of 9/11 needed to know. That's when it really becomes REAL.

Ce livre a été écrit par un monsieur plus âgé et ça se ressent à chaque page. C'est écrit dans un langage d'autre fois et des mœurs d'autre fois aussi. Ces descriptions sur les bateaux de sauvetage sont inimitables...et souvent riche en émotion, ce qui surprend parfois! On voit qu'il est.militaire dans chaque phrase très très structurée et l'intérêt qu'il porte aux ordres donnés. Très très different de "A night to remember" mais superbe. A conseiller aussi.

Exciting

Bellissima testimonianza, molto interessante e scorrevole, in inglese.

Being gutted to think this is real. Fabulous

Me compré este libro porqué trasteando después de reever la película me enteré de que un superviviente escribió su propia versión de la historia. Lo cierto es que aún no lo he empezado y no sé que tipo de inglés me voy a encontrar pero al verlo por encima creo que tiene buena pinta.