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ALIVE ON THE ANDREA DORIA
By: Pierette Domenica Simpson

The Greatest Sea Rescue in History

Purple Mountain Press
June 2006
312 pages
ISBN: 193009874X
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Biography

Recollections and Revelations! One-half century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria in July 1956 is relived in this candid, heartrending account. Author and survivor Pierette Domenica Simpson shares the human and technical aspects of what has become known at the "greatest sea rescue in history" and provides the general public, for the first time, with truth about the error that led to the collision.

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CBS Sunday Morning - July 23, 2006