Titanic Disaster Hb [Hardcover]

Dave Bryceson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 17, 1997

This text, based on a collection of contemporary newspaper cuttings, provides an insight into the sinking of the Titanic and its aftermath. The reports, primarily from the "Daily Sketch" and "The Times", have an immediacy, pathos, and wealth of human interest even more than 80 years after the tragedy. The coverage is from the sinking on the night of 14 April 1912 through to the end of the British inquiry, four months later. It includes 400 Titanic-related photographs and the only surviving photograph of the Tussaud model of the ship's commander - Captain E.J. Smith. This tragedy held the front page of a tabloid for 15 consecutive issues and features tales of romance, heroism, devotion to duty, lucky escapes, hints of cowardice, suggestions of murder, and supreme sacrifice - providing an insight into a past era when Britain had an Empire, suffragettes, and a firm belief in itself.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 312 pages
• Publisher: Haynes Publishing Group (March 17, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852605790
• ISBN-13: 978-1852605797
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,938,566 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You're back in 1912 reading the headlines!! Wonderful!!, February 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Titanic Disaster: As Reported in the British National Press, April-July 1912 (Hardcover)

This book is great reading, informative and historical. Since the author uses the actual headlines and articles from the newspapers of 1912 you can't help but feel you are traveling through time. The accounts of survivors are heart wrenching and the survivors of those lost, even more so. The inquiries are most interesting and politics never change, do they? I love this book!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read the history as it occured more than eighty years ago., February 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Titanic Disaster: As Reported in the British National Press, April-July 1912 (Hardcover)

Many books have been written on the Titanic. Most of them describe the event like an historical fact, with the advance knowledge of the events and its outcome. Nevertheless, few describe to the emotions and the opinion of the people who lived those moments and how they were observed by the public. Through journalistic notes of the British press, the author of this book, Dave Bryceson, presents a compilation of the news about the wreck and the events that followed it(the rescue, the trials, the support collects for the victims). This it is an excellent book that makes you feel the disaster in all detail, in the human perspective provided by the newspapers. Definitively a book that must be in the collection of every Titanic fan.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great loss of life, December 2, 2006

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Arthur Crown (Heathrow, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Titanic Disaster: As Reported in the British National Press, April-July 1912 (Hardcover)

Dave Bryceson's (1997) book is the culmination of years of painstaking research and what is, for the author, an enduring fascination for the impact of this great maritime disaster not only upon the lives of those who perished and their relatives, but also the great sense of public participation in the private grief of those affected by it.

Just very occassionally, in more modern times, a great human catastrophe affects a whole nation or group of nations. Not so much because of the number of people killed or injured, but for reasons that are more subtle than that.

'The Titanic Disaster' captures the effect upon ordinary people of this enormous public tragedy, through a collection of press reports, announcements and published photographs which followed the events of 14th and 15th April 1912.