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Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (Hardcover): Frank Richard Stockton Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (Hardcover)
Frank Richard Stockton
R745 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Faithful of Days - The Story of Robert Crighton, Master Mariner (Paperback): Clare Abbot Faithful of Days - The Story of Robert Crighton, Master Mariner (Paperback)
Clare Abbot
R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific - Strategy, Order, and Regional Security (Hardcover): Catherine L. Grant,... The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific - Strategy, Order, and Regional Security (Hardcover)
Catherine L. Grant, Alessio Patalano, James A. Russell; Foreword by Ann E. Rondeau; Contributions by Alessio Patalano, …
R2,964 Discovery Miles 29 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-Pacific Competition at sea is once again a central issue of international security. Nowhere is the urgency to address state-on-state competition at sea more strongly felt than in the Indo-Pacific region, where freedom of navigation is challenged by regional states’ continuous investments in naval power, and the renewed political will to use it to undermine its principles. The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific provides an original framework in which five “factors of influence” explain how and why naval power matters in this pivotal part of the world. An international group of contributors make the case that these five factors draw upon a longstanding influence of naval power on regional dynamics and impact the extent to which different states in the region use naval power: the capacity to exert control over sea-lanes, the capacity to deploy a nuclear deterrent at sea, the capacity to implement the law of the sea in an advantageous way, the ability to control marine resources, and the capacity for technological innovation. The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific offers a fresh approach for academics and policy makers seeking to navigate the complexity of maritime security and regional affairs.

Operation Pedestal - The Fleet That Battled to Malta 1942 (Paperback): Max Hastings Operation Pedestal - The Fleet That Battled to Malta 1942 (Paperback)
Max Hastings
R317 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R49 (15%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a personal decision that at all costs, the 'island fortress' must be saved. This was not merely a matter of strategy, but of national prestige, when Britain's fortunes and morale had fallen to their lowest ebb. The largest fleet the Royal Navy committed to any operation of the western war was assembled to escort fourteen fast merchantmen across a thousand of miles of sea defended by six hundred German and Italian aircraft, together with packs of U-boats and torpedo craft. The Mediterranean battles that ensued between 11 and 15 August were the most brutal of Britain's war at sea, embracing four aircraft-carriers, two battleships, seven cruisers, scores of destroyers and smaller craft. The losses were appalling: defeat seemed to beckon. This is the saga Max Hastings unfolds in his first full length narrative of the Royal Navy, which he believes was the most successful of Britain's wartime services. As always, he blends the 'big picture' of statesmen and admirals with human stories of German U-boat men, Italian torpedo-plane crews, Hurricane pilots, destroyer and merchant-ship captains, ordinary but extraordinary seamen. Operation Pedestal describes catastrophic ship sinkings, including that of the aircraft-carrier Eagle, together with struggles to rescue survivors and salvage stricken ships. Most moving of all is the story of the tanker Ohio, indispensable to Malta's survival, victim of countless Axis attacks. In the last days of the battle, the ravaged hulk was kept under way only by two destroyers, lashed to her sides. Max Hastings describes this as one of the most extraordinary tales he has ever recounted. Until the very last hours, no participant on either side could tell what would be the outcome of an epic of wartime suspense and courage.

Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia - History, Causes and Remedies (Hardcover): Adam J Young Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia - History, Causes and Remedies (Hardcover)
Adam J Young
R1,171 R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Save R192 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores contemporary maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, demonstrating the utility of using historical context in developing policy approaches that will address the roots of this resurgent phenomenon. The depth and breadth of historical piracy help highlight causative factors of contemporary piracy, which are immersed in the socio-cultural matrix of maritime-oriented peoples to whom piracy is still a "thinkable" option. The threats to life and property posed by piracy are relatively low, but significant given the strategic nature of these waterways that link the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and because piracy is emblematic of broader issues of weak state control in the littoral states of the region. Maritime piracy will never be completely eliminated, but with a progressive economic and political agenda aimed at changing the environment from which piracy is emerging, it could once again become the exception rather than the rule.

Blue Water Patriots - The American Revolution Afloat (Hardcover): James M. Volo Blue Water Patriots - The American Revolution Afloat (Hardcover)
James M. Volo
R2,800 Discovery Miles 28 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1775, it seemed inconceivable that the American colonists could overcome the overwhelming military superiority of Great Britain. Yet the belligerent colonists were certain they could defeat the British army they so despised. On the other hand, their one great fear was that they would not be able to overcome the presence of the Royal Navy. Somehow though, the colonists were able to resist the British at sea, attract capable allies, and successfully conclude their quest for independence. The primary focus of this work is the period prior to 1779 before the French had come to the aid of the fledgling American nation-when the Blue Water Patriots confronted the Royal Navy alone, relying on little more than ingenuity and courage. In 1775, it was inconceivable that the American colonists could have overcome the overwhelming military superiority of Great Britain. Yet the belligerent colonists seemed certain that they could defeat the British army they so despised. On the other hand, the one great fear shared by all colonists was that they would not be able to overcome the presence of the Royal Navy. Yet, somehow, the colonists were able to resist the British at sea, attract capable allies to aid them, and successfully conclude their quest for independence. The American Revolution can safely be viewed as part of a prolonged worldwide naval conflict between France and Britain beginning with the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and ending with the British victory at Trafalgar in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars. This was a period in which the armed merchantmen of the age of trade were replaced by genuine warships whose task was to control the sea lanes. The American Revolution was a watershed in this regard with improved warship designs, new technologies, improved gunpowder and communications, and innovative tactics. Although French participation in the war for independence was crucial, the primary focus of this work is the period before 1779, when the colonists confronted the Royal Navy alone with only their ingenuity and courage to defend them. Every school child knows that the American Revolution began on Lexington Green in April, 1775, but how many are aware that in 1764 a Royal Navy cutter, St. John, engaged in the suppression of smuggling, was fired upon by Rhode Islanders; that in 1769, the revenue sloop Liberty was seized and burned by the people of Newport; or that in 1772, the navy cutter Gaspee was burned in the night by armed patriots attacking from small boats. These Blue Water Patriots fought the first battles on the road to American independence. This is their story.

To Rule the Waves - How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers (Paperback): Bruce Jones To Rule the Waves - How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers (Paperback)
Bruce Jones
R487 R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an "important" (The Wall Street Journal) and "penetrating historical and political study" (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan's The Revenge of Geography. For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit. All that has changed, as nine-tenths of global commerce and the bulk of energy trade is today linked to sea-based flows. A brightly painted forty-foot steel shipping container loaded in Asia with twenty tons of goods may arrive literally anywhere else in the world; how that really happens and who actually profits from it show that the struggle for power on the seas is a critical issue today. Now, in vivid, closely observed prose, Bruce Jones conducts us on a fascinating voyage through the great modern ports and naval bases-from the vast container ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai to the vital naval base of the American Seventh Fleet in Hawaii to the sophisticated security arrangements in the Port of New York. Along the way, the book illustrates how global commerce works, that we are amidst a global naval arms race, and why the oceans are so crucial to America's standing going forward. As Jones reveals, the three great geopolitical struggles of our time-for military power, for economic dominance, and over our changing climate-are playing out atop, within, and below the world's oceans. The essential question, he shows, is this: who will rule the waves and set the terms of the world to come?

The Last of the Hunters - Life with the Fishermen of North Shields (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Peter Mortimer The Last of the Hunters - Life with the Fishermen of North Shields (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Peter Mortimer
R213 Discovery Miles 2 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, v. 11 - Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-45 (Hardcover, New... History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, v. 11 - Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-45 (Hardcover, New edition)
Samuel Eliot Morison
R1,020 R925 Discovery Miles 9 250 Save R95 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Art and the Sea (Hardcover): Emma Roberts Art and the Sea (Hardcover)
Emma Roberts
R3,877 Discovery Miles 38 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited collection re-examines the relationship between art and the sea, reflecting growing interest in the intersections between art and maritime history. Artists have always been fascinated by and drawn to the sea and this book considers some of the themes and approaches in art that have evolved as a result of this captivation. The chapters consider how an examination of art can provide new insights into existing knowledge of port and maritime history, and are representative of a 'cultural turn' in port and maritime studies, which is becoming increasingly visible. In Art and the Sea, multiple perspectives are offered as a result of the contributors' individual positions and methodologies: some museological, others art historical or maritime-historical. Each chapter proposes a new way of building upon available interpretations of port and maritime history: whether this be to reject, support or reconsider existing knowledge. The book as a whole is a timely addition, therefore, to the developing body of revisionist texts in port and maritime history. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume relates to a current trend for interdisciplinarity in art history and will appeal to those with an interest in art history, geography, sociology, history and transport / maritime studies.

Darwin's Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback): Kevin Jackson Darwin's Odyssey: The Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
Kevin Jackson
R306 R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810 - A Short History with Documents (Paperback): Robert J. Antony The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810 - A Short History with Documents (Paperback)
Robert J. Antony
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Japanese sources-some translated for the first time-to illustrate the complexity and variety of piratical activities in Asian waters. These documents include archival criminal cases and depositions of pirates and victims, government reports and proclamations, memoirs of coastal residents and pirate captives, and written and oral folklore handed down for generations. The book also illuminates the important role that pirates played in the political, economic, social, and cultural transformations of early modern China and the world. An historical perspective provides an important vantage point to understand piracy as a recurring cyclical phenomenon inseparably connected with the past.

The Norwegian Invasion of England in 1066 (Hardcover): Kelly DeVries The Norwegian Invasion of England in 1066 (Hardcover)
Kelly DeVries
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This very accessible narrative...tells the story of 'the first two important battles of 1066', Fulford Gate and Stamford Bridge, and of the leaders of the opposing English and Norwegian factions. CHOICE The evidence of later 12th- and 13th-century Norse sagas, Snorri Sturlusson's Heimskringla, and the less well known Norwegian Kings Sagas...present far more detail about the invasion and its battles than the more widely accepted sources could possibly allow... He places the invasion in a broad context. He outlines the Anglo-Scandinavian nature of the English kingdom in the eleventh century, traces the careers of the major leaders, and devotes a chapter each to the English and Norwegian military systems. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY (US) William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066 was not the only attack on England that year. On September 25, 1066, less than three weeks before William defeated King Harold II Godwinson at the battle of Hastings, that same Harold had been victorious over his other opponent of 1066, King Haraldr Hardradi of Norway at the battle of Stamford Bridge. It was an impressive victory, driving an invading army of Norwegians from the earldom of Northumbria; but it was to cost Harold dear. In telling the story of this neglected battle, Kelly DeVries traces the rise and fall of a family of English warlords, the Godwins, as well as that of the equally impressive Norwegian warlord Hardradi.KELLY DEVRIES is Associate Professor, Department of History, Loyola College in Maryland.

The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800 (Hardcover): Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert, Steve Mentz The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800 (Hardcover)
Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert, Steve Mentz
R6,765 Discovery Miles 67 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare across several hundred years of history, students can access the full scope of maritime history and explore new ways of thinking about the marine past. This book explores maritime expertise across a wide geographical scope including Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas, ensuring that students can understand the global impact of sea travel in the early modern period.

The Eye of the Crown - The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service (Hardcover): Kristin M. S. Bezio The Eye of the Crown - The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service (Hardcover)
Kristin M. S. Bezio
R4,491 Discovery Miles 44 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government. In the government's attempts to control religious practices, wage war, and expand their mercantile reach both east and west, spies and agents became essential figures of empire, but their presence also fundamentally altered the old hierarchies of class and power. The job of the spy or agent required fluidity of role, the adoption of disguise and alias, and education, all elements that contributed to the ideological breakdown of social and class barriers. The volume argues that the inclusion of the lower classes (commoners, merchants, messengers, and couriers) in the machinery of government ultimately contributed to the creation of governmental proto-bureaucracy. The importance and significance of these spies is demonstrated through the use of statistical social network analysis, analyzing social network maps and statistics to discuss the prominence of particular figures within the network and the overall shape and dynamics of the evolving Elizabethan secret service. The Eye of the Crown is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in government, espionage, social hierarchy, and imperial power in Elizabethan England.

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, v. 10 - The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945 (Hardcover, New... History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, v. 10 - The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943-May 1945 (Hardcover, New edition)
Samuel Eliot Morison
R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Privateers of the Revolution (Hardcover): Donald Grady Shomette Privateers of the Revolution (Hardcover)
Donald Grady Shomette
R1,071 R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Save R212 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A revelatory narrative of the 538 Pennsylvania and New Jersey privateers, privately owned ships of war some called pirates. Manned by over 18,000 men, these privateers influenced the fight for American independence. From the halls of Congress to the rough waterfronts of Delaware River and Bay to the remote privateering ports of the New Jersey coast and into the Atlantic, a stirring portrait emerges of seaborne raiders, battles, and derring-do, as well as incredible escapes from the great British prison ships "vulgarly called Hell," where more than 11,000 men perished. A work 40 years in the making extracted from archives in both Europe and America, it is a tale unrivaled by any Hollywood fiction.

Tolerance Re-Shaped in the Early-Modern Mediterranean Borderlands - Travellers, Missionaries and Proto-Journalists (1683-1724)... Tolerance Re-Shaped in the Early-Modern Mediterranean Borderlands - Travellers, Missionaries and Proto-Journalists (1683-1724) (Paperback)
Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores perceptions of toleration and self-identity through an analysis of otherness' real experience of Italian travellers, Catholic missionaries and Maltese proto-journalists within Mediterranean border-spaces. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, which integrates the analysis of original and unpublished archival documentation with early modern European travel literature, the book shows how fluid subjects and border groups adapted to new environments, often generating information that made the Ottomans and their system of values real and dignified to an Italian audience. The interdisciplinary combining of historical methodology with the tools of comparative literature, anthropology and folklore studies provides a fresh perspective on concepts of tolerance as experienced in the early modern Mediterranean.

On a Sea of Glass - The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic (Paperback): Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt On a Sea of Glass - The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic (Paperback)
Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt; Introduction by George Behe
R955 R813 Discovery Miles 8 130 Save R142 (15%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold waters of the North Atlantic. How could this 'unsinkable' vessel sink and why did so few of those aboard survive? The authors bring the tragedy to life, telling the story of the ship's design, construction and maiden voyage. The stories of individuals who sailed on her, many previously known only as names on yellowing passenger and crew lists, are brought to light using rarely-seen accounts of the sinking. The stories of passengers of all classes and crewmembers alike, are explored. They tell the dramatic stories of lives lost and people saved, of the rescue ship Carpathia, and of the aftermath of the sinking. Never again would a large passenger liner sail without lifeboats for all. Despite the tragedy, the sinking of the Titanic indirectly led to untold numbers of lives being saved due to new regulations that came into force after the tragedy. Profusely illustrated, including many rare and unique views of the ship and those who sailed on her, this is as accurate and engrossing a telling of the life of the White Star Line's Titanic and her sinking as you will read anywhere. Made special by the use of so many rare survivor accounts from the eye witnesses to that night to remember, the narrative places the reader in the middle of the maiden voyage, and brings the tragic sinking to life as never before.

Conversations with Angels - Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700 (Hardcover): J. Raymond Conversations with Angels - Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700 (Hardcover)
J. Raymond
R3,637 Discovery Miles 36 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.

Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition (Paperback): Sarah J. Lippert Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition (Paperback)
Sarah J. Lippert
R1,411 Discovery Miles 14 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In an era when ease of travel is greater than ever, it is also easy to overlook the degree to which voyages of the body - and mind - have generated an outpouring of artistry and creativity throughout the ages. Exploration of new lands and sensations is a fundamental human experience. This volume in turn provides a stimulating and adventurous exploration of the theme of travel from an art-historical perspective. Topical regions are covered ranging from the Grand Tour and colonialism to the travels of Hadrian in ancient times and Georgia O'Keeffe's journey to the Andes; from Vasari's Neoplatonic voyages to photographing nineteenth-century Japan. The scholars assembled consider both imaginary travel, as well as factual or embellished documentation of voyages. The essays are far-reaching spatially and temporally, but all relate to how art has documented the theme of travel in varying media across time and as illustrated and described by writers, artists, and illustrators. The scope of this volume is far-reaching both chronologically and conceptually, thereby appropriately documenting the universality of the theme to human experience.

From Jack Tar to Union Jack - Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918 (Paperback): Mary A. Conley From Jack Tar to Union Jack - Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918 (Paperback)
Mary A. Conley
R946 Discovery Miles 9 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jack Tar to Union Jack examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Through analysis of sources that include courts-martial cases, sailors' own writings, and the HMS Pinafore, Conley charts new depictions of naval manhood during the Age of Empire, a period which witnessed the radical transformation of the navy, the intensification of imperial competition, the democratisation of British society, and the advent of mass culture. Jack Tar to Union Jack argues that popular representations of naval men increasingly reflected and informed imperial masculine ideals in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Conley shows how the British Bluejacket as both patriotic defender and dutiful husband and father stood in sharp contrast to the stereotypic image of the brave but bawdy tar of the Georgian navy. This book will be essential reading for students of British imperial history, naval and military history, and gender studies. -- .

How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World - Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century (Hardcover): Nick Collins How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World - Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century (Hardcover)
Nick Collins
R780 R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Save R105 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Worldwide maritime trade has been the driver of wealth-creation, knowledge-collection, social, political and economic progress and although some historians have shown that from the 15th century, Nick Collins shows it predates the end of the Ice Age when the Indian Ocean was the centre of long-haul voyages from east Africa to the Americas. It demonstrates the centrality of the Indian subcontinent. Meaningful trade gradually penetrated the Mediterranean, resulting in more famous civilisations including Phoenicians, Egyptians, Minoans and Greeks. How they and Hittite, Mittani etc are related is explained. How it collapsed in Europe in the 5th-7th centuries but continued in Asia concludes the story. It is based on huge reading with an attractive wring style, full of fascinating insights from an author with life-long experience in international shipping.

The World of the Medieval Shipmaster - Law, Business and the Sea, c.1350-c.1450 (Hardcover, New): Robin Ward The World of the Medieval Shipmaster - Law, Business and the Sea, c.1350-c.1450 (Hardcover, New)
Robin Ward
R3,173 Discovery Miles 31 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A comprehensive picture of the life and responsibilities of an English medieval shipmaster. Despite a background of war, piracy, depopulation, bullion shortages, adverse political decisions, legal uncertainties and deteriorating weather conditions, between the mid-fourteenth and the mid-fifteenth centuries the English merchant shipping industry thrived. New markets were developed, voyages became longer, ships and cargoes increased in size and value, and an interest in ship ownership as an investment spread throughout the community. Using a rich range of examples drawn from court and parliamentary records, contemporary literature and the codifications of maritime law, this book illuminates the evolving management and commercial practices which developed to regulate the relationships between shipowners, shipmasters, crews and shipping merchants. It also brings to life ship performance, navigation, seamanship, and the frequently harsh conditions on board.

Titanic Tragedy - A New Look at the Lost Liner (Paperback): John Maxtone-Graham Titanic Tragedy - A New Look at the Lost Liner (Paperback)
John Maxtone-Graham
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Titanic Tragedy maritime historian John Maxtone-Graham documents the vessel's design, construction, and departure from Southampton, her passengers' lifeboat ordeal, their Carpathia rescue, the role of new technologies, and memorials to her crew. He describes poignantly the performance of her eight gallant bandsmen who played on deck to the very end; none survived. Added historical bonuses include seven letters, ostensibly from a Titanic passenger. In fact, they were written by one of America's most eminent historians, Walter Lord, author of the seminal A Night to Remember of 1955. His devastating parodies about life aboard the doomed ship appear here in print for the first time.

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