Why name a ship after a defeated race?
Thomas Laqueur: New Lives of the ‘Titanic’, 24 January 2013
The Wreck of the ‘Titan’
by Morgan Robertson.
Hesperus, 85 pp., £8, March 2012,978 1 84391 359 7 Show More
by Morgan Robertson.
Hesperus, 85 pp., £8, March 2012,
Shadow of the ‘Titanic’
by Andrew Wilson.
Simon and Schuster, 392 pp., £8.99, March 2012,978 1 84739 882 6 Show More
by Andrew Wilson.
Simon and Schuster, 392 pp., £8.99, March 2012,
‘Titanic’ 100th Anniversary Edition: A Night Remembered
by Stephanie Barczewski.
Continuum, 350 pp., £15.99, December 2011,978 1 4411 6169 7 Show More
by Stephanie Barczewski.
Continuum, 350 pp., £15.99, December 2011,
The Story of the Unsinkable ‘Titanic’: Day by Day Facsimile Reports
by Michael Wilkinson and Robert Hamilton.
Transatlantic, 127 pp., £16.99, November 2011,978 1 907176 83 8 Show More
by Michael Wilkinson and Robert Hamilton.
Transatlantic, 127 pp., £16.99, November 2011,
‘Titanic’ Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew
by Richard Davenport-Hines.
Harper, 404 pp., £9.99, September 2012,978 0 00 732166 7 Show More
by Richard Davenport-Hines.
Harper, 404 pp., £9.99, September 2012,
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
by Hugh Brewster.
Robson, 338 pp., £20, March 2012,978 1 84954 179 4 Show More
by Hugh Brewster.
Robson, 338 pp., £20, March 2012,
‘Titanic’ Calling
edited by Michael Hughes and Katherine Bosworth.
Bodleian, 163 pp., £14.99, April 2012,978 1 85124 377 8 Show More
edited by Michael Hughes and Katherine Bosworth.
Bodleian, 163 pp., £14.99, April 2012,
“... end and more than four thousand people drowned. The thin-moustached villain of the film was Bruce Ismay, director of the White Star Line, who according to the script insisted that the ineffective Captain Smith, emblem of Britain’s exaggerated sense of its seafaring skill, drive his ship at full speed through an icefield so it could set a transatlantic ... ”
