A Night to Remember
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1997-07
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780553278279
Subjects: Maritime History; c 1900 - c 1914; Modern - 20th Century; History - General History; History: World; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; History / Modern / 20th Century; Titanic (Steamship)
First sentence: High in the crow's-nest of the New White Star Liner Titanic, Lookout Frederick Fleet peered into a dazzling night.
Description: She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the <em>Titanic</em> was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" <em>Titanic</em> raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. <em>A Night to Remember</em> is the gut-wrenching, minute-by-minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and worst in human nature. Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in the boats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped belowdecks, sought help in vain. 

From the first distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, here is the legendary disaster relieved by the few who survived and can never forget the many who did not.