Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS Titanic / Daniel Allen Butler. 4 stars

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Another book about the Titanic. This one is quite detailed: it starts with the building of the ship and continues through the sailing and the night the ship sank. It includes the investigations (one in the US, one in the UK) into what happened afterward, and follows up with what happened to some of the survivors.

I have read so much about the Titanic, so I do “know”/recognize some of the names of some of the guests on the ship (yes, beyond John Jacob Astor), but it continues to fascinate. Again, this was quite detailed, so I lost a bit of interest in the building of the ship, but overall, this is very good - in part, because of all the detail. The author has also written a separate book on the Carpathia and the Californian, the two ships that were closest. The Californian, within sight distance, did nothing to help. The Carpathia, though about four hours away, raced as fast as it could to help. It was the Carpathia that picked up the people off the lifeboats, so the author is well versed in that perspective, as well. This book was originally published in 1998, but this was a 2012 edition, so there was an extra chapter with updates. Given all the detail in this one, it’s probably one of the better Titanic books.