Paperback, 164 pages
English language
Published Aug. 12, 1988 by Cover Craft Bantam Books.
This Is the story of the "unsinkable" TITANIC. She was four city blocks long, with the latest, most ingenious safety devices; a French "side-walk cafe," private promenade decks—but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers on board. Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the TITANIC brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later she upended and sank. Only 705 survivors were picked up from her half-filled boats ...
I learned so much about the Titanic's last fateful night reading this book. The conversational style made it feel like I was being told the story rather than just a collection of facts. I plan on reading Lord's second Titanic book soon.
