Shadow of the Titanic
Subtitle: the extraordinary stories of those who survived
By: Andrew Wilson
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon; Windsor; Paragon
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781445859903; 9781445859910
Subjects: Shipwreck victims; Shipwreck survival; Biography; Large type books; Shipwrecks; Titanic (Steamship)
Description: In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, the icy waters of the North Atlantic reverberated with the desperate screams of more than 1,500 men, women, and children--passengers of the once majestic liner "Titanic." Then, as the ship sank to the ocean floor and the passengers slowly died from hypothermia, an even more awful silence settled over the sea. The sights and sounds of that night would haunt each of the vessel's 705 survivors for the rest of their days. Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs, and diaries as well as interviews with survivors' family members, award-winning journalist and author Andrew Wilson reveals how some used their experience to propel themselves on to fame, while others were so racked with guilt they spent the rest of their lives under the "Titanic's" shadow. Some reputations were destroyed, and some survivors were so psychologically damaged that they took their own lives in the years that followed.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. A fancy-dress ball in Dante's Hell; title: 2. The ship of widows; title: 3. A life too far-fetched for fiction; title: 4. Falling in love in the slipstream of the Titanic; title: 5. The woman who rowed away from the drowning; title: 6. The world's most willing whipping boy; title: 7. The dark side of survival; title: 8. Miss Masquerader; title: 9. Titanic fever; title: 10. Fame is the spur; title: 11. The last survivors; title: Afterword.