Titanic

* That sinking feeling!
* One of the world 's great stories
* Published on 92nd anniversary of disaster
In a night of unforgettable tragedy, the Titanic, the
world 's largest liner on its maiden voyage, struck an
iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11.40 p.m.on 14
April 1912 and sank at 2.20 a.m.the following
morning.Over 1500 people died.Whose fault it was,
and how the passengers and crew reacted, has been
a subject of dispute ever since the first news of the
disaster broke.
Titanic: A Night Remembered, as well the story of the
ship and its only voyage, is an account of ten of
those who died: among them Titanic 's captain
Edward Smith and builder Thomas Andrews, John
Jacob Astor, the richest man on board, and the
bandmaster, William Hartley, who played as the ship
sank.Stephanie Barczewski traces their lives and
careers and what brought all of them together on
that fatal night.Many of those who died were treated
as heroes (in contrast to men such as J.Bruce Ismay
and Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon, who used their
influence to get places in lifeboats).How these men
and women were remembered in both Britain and
America says much about contemporary values of
manhood, heroism, chivalry and national pride.
Titanic: A Night Remembered also sets the Titanic in
the context of three ports: Belfast, where it was buiSouthampton, which lost 600 citizens as members
of its crew; and Queenstown in Ireland, its last port
of call.