Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town

Welshman, John

ISBN 10: 0198786492 ISBN 13: 9780198786498

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-lived floating town. They include members of the crew; passengers in First, Second, and Third Class; women and men; adults and children; rich and poor. Among them are a ship's Captain, a Second Officer, an Assistant Wireless Operator; a Stewardess, an amateur military historian, a governess, a teacher, a domestic servant, a mother, and three children. What were their earlier histories? Who survived, and why, and who perished? And what happened to these people in the years after 1912? Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town answers all these questions and more, while offering a minute-by-minute depiction of events aboard the doomed liner through the eyes of a broad and representative cross-section of those who sailed in her - both those who survived and those who didn't.

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Críticas:

Highly recommend. (Anna Maria Polidori, Al Femminile)

John Welshman has fashioned a moving account of the Titanic's first and last voyage. (Nick Rennison, The Daily Mail)

As thorough and yet compassionate an account as the disaster is ever likely to have. (Open Letters Monthly)

Biografía del autor:

John Welshman is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century British social history and has held posts at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and York. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. His publications include Underclass: a history of the excluded since 1880 and Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain (2010), also published by Oxford University Press.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0198786492
• ISBN 13: 9780198786498
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350