Titanic 9 Hours to Hell

The Survivors' Story

W. B. Bartlett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2011
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-0482-4 (ISBN)

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A major new history of the disaster that weaves into the narrative the first-hand accounts of those who survived. It was twenty minutes to midnight on Sunday 14 April, when Jack Thayer felt the Titanic lurch to port, a motion followed by the slightest of shocks. Seven-year old Eva Hart barely noticed anything was wrong. For Stoker Fred Barrett, shovelling coal down below, it was somewhat different; the side of the ship where he was working caved in. For the next nine hours, Jack, Eva and Fred faced death and survived. They lived, along with just over 700 others picked up by 08.30 the next morning. Over 1500 people did not. This is the story told through the eyes of Jack, Eva, Fred and over a hundred others of those who survived and either wrote their experiences down or appeared before the major inquiries held subsequently. Drawing extensively on their collective evidence, this book weaves the narrative of the events that occurred in those nine fateful hours. This is their story, and those of a fateful night, when the largest ship ever built sank without completing one successful voyage.

W. B. Bartlett is both an experienced historian with a number of publications already to his credit and has also travelled and worked abroad extensively. In his varied career, he has visited fifty countries, working in many of them for extended periods. This has enabled him to understand just how powerful the impact of history can be in our understanding of the world in which we live. He is the author of many history books for Amberley, including titles on the Dam Busters, Titanic, Anglo-Saxons, King Cnut and the Vikings. He lives in Bournemouth.

Prologue 1. Arrival: 18 April 1912, New York & Washington 2. Three Ships: Titanic, Carpathia & Californian 3. The Players: Captains & Crews 4. An Ominous Beginning: 10 April 1912, Southampton 5. Outward Bound: 10 - 13 April 1912, Cherbourg, Queenstown & the North Atlantic 6. Into the Ice Zone: 14 April 1912, North Atlantic 7. Collision: 23.40, 14 April 1912, North Atlantic 49 Degrees 57 Minutes West, 41 Degrees 44 Minutes North 8. A Troubled Silence: 23.41 - 24.00, 14 April 1912 9. Uncovering the Boats: 00.01 - 00.30, 15 April 1912 10. Lower Away: 00.31 - 01.00, 15 April 1912 11. The Looming Crisis: 01.01 - 01.30, 15 April 1912 12. Nowhere to Go: 01.31 - 02.00, 15 April 1912 13. Waiting for Oblivion: 02.01 - 02.17, 15 April 1912 14. Descent into Hell: 02.18 - 02.20, 15 April 1912 15. The Survival Lottery: 02.21 - 04.00, 15 April 1912 16. Deliverance: 04.01 - 08.30, 15 April 1912 17. The World Waits: 15 - 18 April 1912, USA, Great Britain & Elsewhere 18. Honouring The Dead: April - May 1912, North Atlantic & its Periphery 19. Searching for the Truth: April - May 1912, New York & Washington 20. The British Perspective: May - June 1912, London 21. Post Mortem: The World After the Titanic Select Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2011
Zusatzinfo	72 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chalford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	124 x 198 mm
Gewicht	355 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-4456-0482-5 / 1445604825
ISBN-13	978-1-4456-0482-4 / 9781445604824
Zustand	Neuware