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The Sinking of the Titanic - Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors (Paperback)
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The Sinking of the Titanic - Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors (Paperback)
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I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable
sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that
parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken
into sections, probably by our ship. There fell on the ear the most
appalling noise that ever human ear listened to the cries of
hundreds of our fellow-beings struggling in the icy-cold water,
crying for help with a cry that we knew could not be answered.
First published in 1912, Jay Henry Mowbray's Sinking of the Titanic
was hugely influential in the aftermath of the maritime disaster,
recording the harrowing, first-hand accounts of the survivors -
from sailors, to stewards, to passengers - throughout the ordeal,
from when the iceberg first hit to when the Carpathia eventually
arrived, and honouring those who were lost on that fateful night in
1912. Mowbray's text even follows the survivors when they make it
back to land - a lesser-known, riveting aspect of the tragic saga
that deals with the investigation and the hearings that took place
in the US and UK in the months that followed. The swiftness of the
publication of Mowbray's text, the sheer number of first-hand
witness accounts therein and the intensity of the chaos and fear
that their accounts convey makes for a unique compilation which,
together with new notes, maps, images and expert introductory
material in this new, updated edition, will fascinate, educate and
deeply move contemporary readers as much today as the original
publication would have back in 1912.
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