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Titanic: A Survivor's Story
Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. 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...more
Paperback, 216 pages
Published
January 1st 2009
by The History Press
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We all know the story of what happened to Titanic – the unsinkable ship that happened to strike an iceberg on her maiden voyage and would ultimately sink – but do you know what happened to many of the actual people on board the ship? What they were doing when it struck the iceberg, how they got off (or didn’t), how they were saved? This account by Colonel Archibald Gracie, a passenger on the ship, gives us a look into the details in ways that you don’t get in other accounts.
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This is a very important account of the sinking because it was one of the first to come out after the tragedy, while it was fresh in Colonel Gracie's mind. It's amazing Gracie survived and able to tell what happened before he died from the exposure he endured that night. He's able to tell the reader what it was like being a passenger on the largest, luxurious ship of the time before and after striking the iceberg.
I liked it. I agree that it was repetitive in places - mainly due to the Colonel's thoroughness. He often retold the same event several times from different witnesses standpoints and testimonies. Its worth reading the first half just for the story of how he personally was saved. Lucky just isn't the word!?!
Being a Titanic freak this book is required reading. It was just what anyone who wants to read this book should expect. Well done, great read. Not my favorite Titanic book, but still interesting.
A little boring but very interesting
Mind numbing.
I really didn't learn anything new, and it was pretty repetitive.
Bought this in London soon after the movie came out. It's an incredible story and provides great context for the movie.
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