Titanic: First Accounts

Zusatztext "With its detailed stories from survivors of the disaster, Titanic, First Accounts is hugely engaging and adroitly debunks some of the event's great myths. ("Nearer, My God, to Thee" wasn't actually the last song played by the ship's band.) The eyewitness testimonies are equal parts illuminating and haunting, revealing intimate conversations with surviving passengers who didn't fully grasp the scope of the unfolding devastation until it was too late." — Entertainment Weekly Informationen zum Autor Tim Maltin has been studying the Titanic for 25 years. He is working on his magnum opus, which will be published in 2012, which will be the definitive account of what actually happened on that fateful night. Tim works in London and lives in Wiltshire Max Ellis, originally trained as a precision engineer, is a professional illustrator based in London. He is the winner of the British Illustration (AOI) award for humour and his clients include Advertising Age, Maxim, and Wired Magazine. Nicholas Wade is the grandson of Titanic survivor Lawrence Beesley and the author of three Penguin books, including A Troublesome Inheritance . Klappentext Just in time for the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, this graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth W. Shutes, and the "unsinkable" Molly Brown. Full of historically accurate details and an afterword by the grandson of Lawrence Beesley, Titanic Survivors and author of The Loss of the S.S. Titanic , it will be the gift to give die-hard Titanic buffs. Authoritative, commemorative and in a striking, luxurious package with and introduction by Titanic enthusiast and expert, Tim Maltin, this will be the authoritative work on the disaster. Zusammenfassung Compiling firsthand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, this work focuses on the disaster....

Product details

• Authors: Tim Maltin, Various, Nicholas Wade
• Assisted by: Tim Maltin (Editor), Maltin Tim (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9780143106623
• ISBN: 978-0-14-310662-3
• No. of pages: 375
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; Deluxe Classics; Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio; Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition; Deluxe Classics
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Ships; Non-fiction book; TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / General, TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History, maritime history, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Ships and boats: general interest, C 1900 - C 1914, Ships & boats: general interest, c 1900 to c 1909, North Atlantic