John Welshman

Titanic

The Last Night of a Small Town

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the fascinating story of 12 passengers on board the Titanic, published to mark the centenary of her sinking. Welshman offers a minute-by-minute account of their last hours and reveals what happened to them on the night of the sinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Early English Text Society
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780198786498
• ISBN-10: 0198786492
• Artikelnr.: 47842093

Autorenporträt

John Welshman is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century British social history and has held posts at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and York. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. His publications include Underclass: a history of the excluded since 1880 and Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain (2010), also published by Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Glossary
Cast List
Introduction
1: 'The Biggest Anchor in the World'
2: 'Like a Big Expectant Family'
3: 'A Wonderful Passage Up To Now'
4: 'Ice, Flat Like a Pocket Watch'
5: 'We Have Collision with Iceberg'
6: 'Latitude 41? 46' N., Longitude 50? 14' W'
7: 'She's Gone, Lads; Row Like Hell'
8: 'A Dark Speck on the Horizon'
9: 'Arranged for Your Exclusive Story'
10: 'Mr Beesley's Simple Narrative'
Note on Sources
Notes
Further Reading
Index