Shadow of the Titanic
Subtitle: the extraordinary stories of those who survived
By: Andrew Wilson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781847377302
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Shipwreck survival; Shipwreck victims; Anecdotes; Transport; Titanic; Schiffsuntergang; Überleben; Titanic (Steamship)
Description: 1,500 men, women and children struggled to stay alive in the freezing Atlantic, the sea was alive with the sound of screaming . Then as the ship sank to the ocean floor and the passengers slowly died from hypothermia, a deathly silence settled over the sea. Yet the echoes of that night reverberated through the lives of each of the 705 survivors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.