A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic

A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic

A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic

By Walter Lord (2012)
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On April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives. Walter Lord's classic bestselling history of the voyage, the wreck and the aftermath is a tour de force of detailed investigation and the upstairs/downstairs divide. A Night to Remember provides a vivid, gripping and deeply personal account of the 'unsinkable' Titanic's descent.

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