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Format:
Hardback 352 pp.
25 b/w halftones, 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-10:
0199595577

ISBN-13:
9780199595570

Publication date:
April 2012

Imprint: OUP UK

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Titanic

The Last Night of a Small Town

Dr. John Welshman

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.

Readership : All those interested in the story of the Titanic, its sinking, and the stories of those who sailed aboard her.

Introduction: The Last Night of a Small Town
1. "The Biggest Anchor in the World"
2. "Like a Big Expectant Family"
3. "A Wonderful Passage Up To Now"
4. "Ice, Flat Like a Pocket Watch"
5. "We Have Collision with Iceberg"
6. "Latitude 41? 46' N., Longitude 50? 14' W"
7. "She's Gone, Lads; Row Like Hell"
8. "A Dark Speck on the Horizon"
9. "Arranged for Your Exclusive Story"
10. "Mr Beesley's Simple Narrative"
Notes
Index

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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 latest book, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain (2010), is also published by Oxford University Press.

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Special Features

  • The fascinating story of twelve passengers on board the Titanic - on the centenary of her sinking.
  • Offers a minute-by-minute account of the doomed liner's last hours through a representative cross-section of those who sailed in her: men and women, old and young, pasengers and crew, First Class to Third Class.
  • Includes a rich cast of eye-witnesses: a ship's captain, a second officer, a wireless operator, a stewardess, an amateur military historian, a governess, a teacher, a domestic servant, a mother, and three children.
  • Tells the story of where they were from, what happened to them on the night of the sinking, and what happened to those who survived in the years afterwards.