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Titanic. The Marilyn Monroe of ocean liners. A sleek, sultry beauty, taken out way before her time. A kind of 21st century Flying Dutchman, with interiors by Cesar Ritz, still striving to achieve the waters of a port she can never reach. Fuelled by a subtle mixture of horror, fascination and sheer, fatal glamour, she surges heedlessly across the still, starlit calm of our collective subconscious, hell bent on achieving her chilling, near midnight rendezvous with her killer. Titanic is a brilliantly lit stage, carrying her cast of exotic, terminally endangered extras toward an abyss at once both unfathomable and inconceivable. Here's where any similarity with any other tome about the Titanic ends. For the first time ever, a succession of key characters and groups of individuals come to the fore. Centre stage, over seventeen chapters, we meet the men whose decisions, actions and omissions combined like some slow burning powder trail to trigger a final, cataclysmic conclusion; the foundering, in mid Atlantic, of the biggest moving object ever seen on the face of the planet. One by one, a series of individuals take a bow. Seemingly omnipotent owners and hugely experienced ship's officers. Engineers and designers. Would be rescuers and embattled wireless operators. We meet them as individuals, not supermen. Their histories, backgrounds and life experiences are assessed for the first time ever, putting their actions on the night that Titanic sank into a context, a light as stark as that of the distress rockets, arcing into the sky…
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prelude Spartans and Titans: A Convergence of the Twain
- Chapter 1 Out of Sight, Out of Hope: The Battle Below Decks
- Chapter 2 Ladies, Lift Operators, and Postal Clerks: Unsung and Largely Unremembered
- Chapter 3 The Last Lifeboat: The Men Around Collapsible D
- Chapter 4 Phillips and Bride: Two Men and a Marconi Wireless Room
- Chapter 5 The Boys in the Band, Part One: Wallace Hartley
- Chapter 6 Thomas Andrews: The Man Who Loved and Lost
- Chapter 7 Charles Lightoller: The Man Made a Legend
- Chapter 8 Fighting on a Foundering Battlefield
- Chapter 9 J. Bruce Ismay: Victim or Villain?
- Chapter 10 Lowering the Boats
- Chapter 11 The Boys in the Band, Part Two: The Magnificent Seven
- Chapter 12 William Murdoch: The Man Who Saved the Multitude
- Chapter 13 Captain Edward Smith: Spartan or Sultan?
- Chapter 14 Stewards and Salvation: Heroes on the Hoof?
- Chapter 15 James Moody: ‘All of the Horrors at Sea Seem to Happen at Night’
- Chapter 16 Harold Lowe: The Man Who Went Back
- Chapter 17 Captain Arthur Rostron: The Electric Spark
- Epilogue A Twenty-First-Century Flying Dutchman
- References
- Plate Section