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Title: The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation by Tom Kuntz, United States Senate Committee on Commerce, United States Congress Senate Committee on Commerce, William Alden Smith ISBN: 0-671-02553-8 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unsinkable and Unthinkable! The Senate Investigates Titanic!
Comment: This is the Titanic book you are looking for. Far from being one of the many novelizations or non-fiction novel type history reports, this is testimony straight from the survivor's mouths about what happened the night disaster struck. We are all familiar with C-Span senate hearings of the past few decades, but this is one of the interesting ones condensed into an exciting and informative volume. Questioning began mere days after the accident as the Carpathia pulled into New York with the few souls who made it. Even the slightly repetative nature of the senator's questions from person to person revealed a new fact or two about the sinking of the unsinkable ship.
For those whose knowledge of the Titanic comes mostly from James Cameron, this volume is a wealth of first hand information that didn't get covered in the blockbuster film. Most shocking was that the ship, the Californian, was within sight of the Titanic and saw her distress rockets but didn't come to her aid, even though they could have gotten there before the ship sank. This volume also covers other interesting aspects of the case like the yellow journalism practiced as papers vied for exclusive rights to stories, Bruce Ismay trying to get everyone on a ship back to England before they could be questioned in America and The Wall Street Journal giving false reports that Titanic was fine so that certain stocks didn't plummet. Many of the controversial aspects of the case are addressed to a satisfactory degree, but you can see some pat answers and bet hedging in some of the testimony.
Fascinating Stuff!
Rating: 5
Summary: INTERESTING, INFORMATIVE, SPELLBINDING
Comment: I am a fourteen year old fanatic on the subject of the Titanic, and I feel that this is the ultimate book of the Titanic disaster. A real infomative book that any Titanic buff should own. This book is a real bible of the disaster of the century. It discusses issues, and topics that weren't quite heard about before. It is a factual recollection from passengers and crew as the recount the sights and sounds of that fatefull night in April of 1912, with an interesting intro by the author, Tom Kuntz. I like the fact that this book displays very interesting statistic at the end of the text. Sometimes there are parts that you would really like answers to but the "interviewees" can't remember them, that could be frustrating if your like me (wanting the scoop on every little detail). Anyway I love this book and am really glad it is a part of my Titanic collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: for pure facts not fiction
Comment: For people wishing to know more about the Titanic aftermath, this is your book. This not fictions or guesses, this is the actual Official transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigations.
Excellent insight to the first hand personal accounts by the people themselves gives you a clearer understanding of the domino effect that caused the disaster.
Excellent reference work.
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Title: The Story of the Titanic as Told by Its Survivors by Jack Winocour ISBN: 0486206106 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: A Night to Remember by WALTER LORD ISBN: 0553278274 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Titanic: A Survivor's Story and the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic by Archibald Gracie, Archibald Gracie ISBN: 0897334523 Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub Pub. Date: 18 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Night Lives On by Walter J. Lord ISBN: 0380732033 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions About the Titanic by Hugh Brewster, Laurie Coulter, Ken Marschall ISBN: 0439042968 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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