It was a magnificent engineering achievement in a golden age of shipbuilding. Its lavish extravagance and sheer record-breaking size had the White Star Line's rivals dashing back to their drawing boards. The Titanic attracted the rich and famous and with them the entire world's attention. But its sinking and the loss of over 1,500 lives have made its name synonymous with tragedy, the ship itself now representing poor judgement, bad planning, and gross negligence. Fascination with the Titanic, however, has never waned. Throughout their lives survivors were treated as celebrities, films were made and stories written. Then in 1986, 74 years after it sank, its final resting place was discovered on the ocean floor. Pictures were taken and relics salvaged. Ten years later the site has been revisited and this time it is hoped that the Titanic can be raised. With this and the 85th anniversary of that horrifying night, comes a new wave of excitement. Illustrated throughout with 100 photographs, The Titanic tells the fascinating story of this ship, from inception to the events of the night of April 14, 1912 and on to the present day.
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Stimulating research of the begining to an end.,
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As a Civil War Historian I've become accutely aware of fact vs. fiction and how emotion rips the truth from the printed word. It is pleasureable to say that from my first reading of this book Geoff Tibballs, has not thrown away the facts for fiction. He has instead put together quite a remarkable piece of work, topping it off with the final chapter "The legacy of the Titanic". It's pages are filled with first hand accounts and plenty of descriptive material, leading the reader from the very first thoughts of building the magestic liner to it's tragic and heart felt demise in early morning hours of April 15, 1912. If you're historically minded or just mildly interested and are looking for a quality book on the Titanic that's easy to read and enjoyable to follow, this is the book for you!
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I have to admit that before I saw the movie Titanic I wasn't very interested. Since I saw the movie a month and a half ago, I have been reading every book on the Titanic I can get my hands on. I loved the way this was written from beginning to end. Most of the other books just go over what we saw in the movie, while this book let's you in on things that happened in 1912 that weren't talked about in the movie. This is a wonderful book and I would recommend it to anyone.
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