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Titanic Survivor - The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters (Paperback)
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Titanic Survivor - The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters (Paperback)
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Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in
1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age
of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five
siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and nurse on
some of the most famous ocean going vessels of the day. Throughout
her 40 year time at sea she survived an unbelievable series of
events including the sinking of the TITANIC. "One awful moment of
empty, misty blackness enveloped us in its loneliness, then an
unforgettable, agonizing cry went up from 1500 despairing throats,
a long wail and then silence and our tiny craft tossing about at
the mercy of the ice field." For most people one sinking would be
enough. But four years later Violet, now a nurse with the British
Red Cross, was on board the World War I hospital ship BRITANNIC
when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean. To her,
this disaster was even more horrifying-- "Just as life seeming
nothing but a whirling, choking ache, I rose to the light of day,
my nose barely above the little lapping waves. I opened my eyes on
an indescribable scene of slaughter, which made me shut them again
to keep it out." By the end of her story we have a met a woman who
could handle whatever life threw at her with determination and good
humor. She knew that only by her own strength of character would
she survive. But Titanic Survivor is much more. A unique
autobiography for those who want to know how it really felt, a
story that could be told only by a Titanic Survivor.
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