The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the Unsinkable Ship-Titanic!

By Walter Lord

Categories: History

Three decades after A Night to Remember, Walter Lord returned to the Titanic to take up the questions that his first book left open and that the 1985 discovery of the wreck revived. He examines Captain Smith's command, the damage done by the iceberg, the failures of wireless, the inaction of the nearby Californian, the half-empty lifeboats, the conduct of J. Bruce Ismay, the Carpathia's rescue and the evidence on whether the band really played Nearer, My God, to Thee.

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