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Titanic: Destination Disaster

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I have studied TITANIC most of life and before the movie, TITANIC, It was hard to find TITANIC books. This one and Don Lynch's TITANIC AN ILLUSTRATED history were the best out. This is like a dictonary. It has the most informaition of all TITANIC books. I would recomend this book to anyone. It is a great book for the begginer for its info and great price. BUY THIS BOOK!

This is one of my my personal favorite Titanic books. I am a Titanic buff and am hungry for facts, and, to say the least, am now full. This book has from the Titanic gross tonnage to how much money Col. John Jacob Astor had in his pocket when his body was found.

This is a must for any Titanic Library, and is a great companion to Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy. It has a timeline of the ship, the dimension, the WHOLE story (it was reprinted in 1998), and CRAMMED cover to cover with facts.
I was disappointed to see, however, that it did not include the complete names of many people. Anyway, the good eradicates the bad, so I think any one who is even mildly interested in the Titanic should waste no time and get this book. Now.

This volume is a cornerstone of any Titanic collection. Those who wish to explore the innumerable 'what ifs' of the disaster will be better off elsewhere, but there isn't a more dispassionate, detailed and vivid recounting of the Titanic's construction, voyage and demise. Crammed with facts, the text is brought alive by page after page of very evocative pictures. The authors tell the story very straight and avoid much of the lurid speculation common to others, but for a great read that puts you right on the great liner, this book serves well.

I must agree with some other reviewees that this book is simply chock a block full of Titanic info. The style of writing is fast paced and very very intriguing. You can sit there for hours reading and not realize time flies. A fully succinct history of Titanic lore from her construction, to ill fated maiden voyage, to sinking, discovery, and preservation of artifacts. Its all there! If you are new on the Titanic bandwagon, and want to start off on the right foot. Get this book!

This is probably my favorite short book on the Titanic. It may not have all the material available elsewhere, but for a pretty quick read, it is about as good as they come. Those who like to curl up and read history books should have a great time here.

Authors Eaton and Haas have written several Titanic books, and in most they have skipped over the sinking itself and concentrated on other aspects of the disaster. Here the sinking is the focus. The 1912 disaster unfolds for the reader. A wonderful set of illustrations complements the text as well.

This book is the second book that I bought about Tianic. It is not the best Titanic book that I have read, but it's excellent facts have helped me a lot in my Titanic project that we're doing in English at school. It's really well written and the accounts of some of the survivers are really interesting. I'd reccomend this book to all Titanic fans - Lauren, 13

before james camereon released his 'titanic'I was unaware of any facts about the great ship ,except for the fact that she hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of 1500 lives. now however after reading countless books and articles i have compiled a detailed knowledge of her . this book , althogh not 100% acurate is very good and deserves to be up there with books such as walter lords 'a night to remember' if you are not a titanic fan, you will be after reading this book.the pictures to are breath taking

A MUST FOR ANY TITANIC BUFF

This is the 4th book that I bought about the Titanic. I thought it had alot of wonderful information about the sinking and the aftermath of this tragedy.

I thought this book was okay. It had a lot of great information in it and some was useless. I like how it showed every detail about the titanic. When they finished the first chapter I thought that the rest of the book was all background information about the ship. When they wrote about the boarding of the rescue boats it showed that they were not prepared for a crash but I thought was interesting. When they wrote about loading the boats with supplies it showed that they have to take a lot of recourses on their trip. I don't think the position of every boat was needed. The chapter on the captain growing up was also not needed in this book. I think that after the first chapter it got a little less interesting when they told you how they got the bodies it was helpful because it showed you that it was worse than most people thought. I think that all the people who sued the ship and for how much was a cool part of the story. It showed that it was an expensive crash not only to the owner but to the people. Over all this book was okay I think that a lot of it was filler but also a lot of it was good information.