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"DEVOTION, GALLANTRY…BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM CHANGING TO EVENING CLOTHES
TO MEET DEATH; MRS.ISADOR STRAUS CLINGING TO HER HUSBAND, REFUSING
TO GET IN A LIFEBOAT; ARTHUR RYERSON GIVING HIS LIFE BELT TO HIS
WIFE'S MAID…IT IS A BOOK TO REMEMBER." -Chicago Tribune
She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century
technology, the Titanic was equipped with the ingenious safety devices
of the time. Yet on a moonlit night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titanic
raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only
twenty lifeboats for 2,207 passengers. A Night to Remember
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.
A
NIGHT TO REMEMBER
From the first distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift
for hours in freezing waters, here is the legendary disaster relived
by the few who survived and can never forget the many who did not.
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