A Night To Remember
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
On the freezing night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic — the largest and most luxurious ocean liner ever built — struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and slipped beneath the waves in less than three hours, taking more than 1,500 souls with it. Walter Lord's A Night to Remember reconstructs that catastrophic night in meticulous, minute-by-minute detail, drawing on first-hand testimonies from survivors to present one of history's most devastating maritime disasters with a immediacy that reads less like history and more like lived experience. Lord's masterful narrative chronicles the full spectrum of human behaviour under extreme duress — from extraordinary acts of courage and self-sacrifice to the stark inequalities of class that determined who lived and who died. His lean, journalistic prose carries a quiet but devastating authority, cementing A Night to Remember as the definitive popular account of the Titanic's sinking and the foundational text upon which virtually all subsequent Titanic literature, film, and scholarship has been built. For anyone who believes they already know the story, Lord's gripping account will prove that the full, unvarnished truth is more haunting than any legend.
Author: Walter Lord
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Longmans, Green and Co
Genre: History
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
On the freezing night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic — the largest and most luxurious ocean liner ever built — struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and slipped beneath the waves in less than three hours, taking more than 1,500 souls with it. Walter Lord's A Night to Remember reconstructs that catastrophic night in meticulous, minute-by-minute detail, drawing on first-hand testimonies from survivors to present one of history's most devastating maritime disasters with a immediacy that reads less like history and more like lived experience. Lord's masterful narrative chronicles the full spectrum of human behaviour under extreme duress — from extraordinary acts of courage and self-sacrifice to the stark inequalities of class that determined who lived and who died. His lean, journalistic prose carries a quiet but devastating authority, cementing A Night to Remember as the definitive popular account of the Titanic's sinking and the foundational text upon which virtually all subsequent Titanic literature, film, and scholarship has been built. For anyone who believes they already know the story, Lord's gripping account will prove that the full, unvarnished truth is more haunting than any legend.