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Walter Lord

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born

October 08, 1917 in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States

died

March 19, 2002

gender

male

genre

Nonfiction

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Walter Lord was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

In 2009 Jenny Lawrence edited and published "The Way It Was: Walter Lord on His Life and Books."

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Average rating: 3.97 · 4,370 ratings · 449 reviews · 25 distinct works

	A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, Nathaniel Philbrick (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 3,235 ratings — published 1955 — 47 editions	My rating:
	Day of Infamy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Edition 4.01 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1957 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Night Lives On 3.90 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway 4.23 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1967 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Time to Stand 3.98 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1961 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Miracle Of Dunkirk 3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1982 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Dawn's Early Light 3.90 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1960 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Past That Would Not Die 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Walter Lord

“Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.”
― Walter Lord, Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

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Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose

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A Distant Mirror The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

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A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

2 votes, 4.5%

No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt The Home Front in by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The Indifferent Stars Above The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown

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King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

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Walter Lord

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