Full name: Titanic: Voices From the Disaster

Author: Deborah Hopkinson Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780545116749 9780545116756 0545116740 0545116759

Critically acclaimed nonfiction author Deborah Hopkinson pieces together the story of the TITANIC and that fateful April night, drawing on the voices of survivors and archival photographs. Scheduled to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the TITANIC, a topic that continues to haunt and thrill readers to this day, this book by critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson weaves together the voices and stories of real TITANIC survivors and witnesses to the disaster -- from the stewardess Violet Jessop to Captain Arthur Rostron of the CARPATHIA, who came to the rescue of the sinking ship. Packed with heartstopping action, devastating drama, fascinating historical details, loads of archival photographs on almost every page, and quotes from primary sources, this gripping story, which follows the TITANIC and its passengers from the ship's celebrated launch at Belfast to her cataclysmic icy end, is sure to thrill and move readers. Similar books: Down with the Old Canoe by Steven Biel Up Before Daybreak by Deborah Hopkinson The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors by Jack Winocour On Board the Titanic by Shelley Tanaka Voyagers of the Titanic by Richard Davenport-Hines Finding the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Exploring the Titanic by Robert D. Ballard Lost Liners by Robert D. Ballard Bunk by Kevin Young Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Persian Fire by Tom Holland Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown SPQR by Mary Beard The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly Triangle by David Von Drehle