Packed with heartstopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, loads of archival photographs on almost every page, quotes from primary sources, and painstaking back matter, this gripping story, which follows the TITANIC and its passengers from the ships celebrated launch at Belfast to her cataclysmic icy end, is sure to thrill and move readers.

Now in paperback! In this award-winning book, critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson weaves together the voices and stories of real TITANIC survivors and witnesses to the disaster - from the stewardess Violet Jessop to Captain Arthur Rostron of the CARPATHIA, who came to the rescue of the sinking ship. Book Synopsis Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson pieces together the harrowing, tragic story of the TITANIC in this Sibert Honor volume. Theres nine-year-old Frankie Goldsmith Violet Jessop, a young stewardess Archibald Gracie, a well-to-do gentleman Charlotte Collyer, a young mother on her way to start a new life and others. Hopkinson weaves together archival photographs and the voices of real Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster to bring the horrors of that terrible night to life. Bravo.About the Book On April 15, 1912, the magnificent ocean liner the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy North Atlantic seas. No matter how many books or survivor accounts you have read about RMS Titanic, this concise retelling is worth your time, and much more than the nine dollar free coupon it cost me. It is a marvelous job of editing and storytelling. It tells the complete timeline of Titanic’s journey into history. What the author has done here, and what the narrator has taken to another level, is to select excerpts from various survivor, accounts, and weave them together to bring you onboard. The original survivor accounts, written in the prose of 1912, can be pretty dry reading. In many ways, it reminds me of “The Only Plane in the Sky,“ the account of 9/11 told through eyewitness accounts. What makes this recording special is its selection of survivor accounts to bring the reader onboard for the journey, the sinking, and the rescue. When I received a $10 coupon for a free Audible book, I chose this one, purely because of the price, and with low expectations. I own almost every book on the subject, including all of the survivors’ published accounts.

I have been a “Titanic Buff” for almost 60 years.

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