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Informationen zum Autor Daniel Allen Butler , a military historian and internationally recognized authority on maritime subjects, is the author of The Lusitania and The Warrior Queens . Klappentext This passionate yet balanced narrative explores every facet of the "Titanic's" history! including her spectacular conception in an Irish shipyard and the ambitious attempts to salvage her. Drawn from primary sources and period accounts! this new narrative puts the disaster into historical context and will serve as an essential historical resource for scholars of "Titanic" lore. photos. Zusammenfassung Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now, a century later, no other ship in history has attracted so much attention, stirred up such powerful emotion, or accumulated as many legends. ?Unsinkable” provides a fresh look at the Titanic 's incredible story. Following the great ship from her conception to her fateful collision to the ambitious attempts to salvage her right up to the present day, Daniel Allen Butler draws on thirty years of research to explore the tragedy and its aftermath in remarkable depth and detail. The result is a must-read for anyone interested in the Titanic .
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One hundred years after the tragedy of the Titanic, a revised and updated edition of the New York Times bestselling account
