Titanic: A Survivor's Story
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0750947020 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This is an EXCELLENT Book!! A MUST READ!" according to Amazon Customer. This is truly a must read book for anyone interested in what happened the night that Titanic sank. Archibald Gracie gives a detailed eye witness account of what took place as crew members worked frantically to get passengers into life boats. Through his words you can see every thing that he describes along with the sense of survival that many passengers and crew members had. Gracie took the time to find out all that he could about those that he helped off the ship and those that did not make it. Then when he describes his experiecne with life an. "It was an amazing tale made moreso by surviving the freezing ocean" according to Amazon Customer. It was an amazing tale made moreso by surviving the freezing ocean. Too bad that his good friend James Clinch Smith didn't make.. "Great book!!" according to B. Morris. I am a Titanic Nut!! This is a great readfrom a survivor no less. Can't beat that.
This volume combines accounts from two survivors of the disaster and is a good value for libraries.Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal With Titanic mania still gripping the country, especially its younger women, material on the doomed ship is in high demand.
His is the most accurate contemporary account of what happened from the moment that the great liner hit the iceberg. . Colonel Archibald Gracie was among the last to leave the sinking Titanic on that cold April night in 1912
Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. He provides details of those final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they were being lowered, causing injury and further danger to life. Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember, comments that Gracie's book—written shortly before he died from the exposure he suffered on that night—is "invaluable for chasing down who went in what boat," and calls Gracie "an indefatigable detective.". The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source