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The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
Atria Books
March 2012
On Sale: March 6, 2012
400 pages
ISBN: 1451671563
EAN: 9781451671568
Kindle: B005GG0M2E
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Non-Fiction Biography
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. Although we think
we know the story of Titanic—the famously luxurious
and supposedly unsinkable ship that struck an iceberg on its
maiden voyage from Britain to America—very little has been
written about what happened to the survivors after the
tragedy. How did they cope in the aftermath of this horrific
event? How did they come to remember that night, a disaster
that has been likened to the destruction of a small town?
Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished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.
Andrew Wilson brings to life the colorful voices of
many of those who lived to tell the tale, from famous
survivors like Madeleine Astor (who became a bride, a widow,
an heiress, and a mother all within a year), Lady Duff
Gordon, and White Star Line chairman J. Bruce Ismay, to
lesser known second- and third-class passengers such as the
Navratil brothers—who were traveling under assumed names
because they were being abducted by their father.
Today, one hundred years after that fateful voyage,
Shadow of the Titanic adds an important new dimension
to our understanding of this enduringly fascinating story.
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