Her Name, "Titanic": The Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship [Paperback]

I may only be 15 years old, but I've been studying the Titanic for many years now. I read this book, and a lot of it does seem hard to believe, like how the wireless operators were joking around. But this book is worth reading, especially if you're just looking for something to enjoy.

The book when it came was not in the best condition, but this book is absolutely a great buy. I am hooked on the Titanic and this book really takes you to the heart of the ocean to the moment Titanic breathed her last. See her demise from the viewpoint of Charles Lightoller and Harold Bride who were in the water being sucked down with her. See her claim her final souls as she takes Andrews, her designer and others who have built her and served on her, loving her as if she was a real being and not just an item of incredible and impassible beauty, to their watery graves as she descends into the deeps to await in silence her discovery, some 73 years later. Return to the moment that she finally rose out of the waters, held in time for seconds before finally vanishing from the view of over 700 souls, who have escaped her fate, and then jump forward to her discovery by Bob Ballard and see that moment in 1985 when he found her at last, after several years of searching to share that find through his eyes. The book is one of three: the first looks at the disaster through the eyes of those who were the last to leave her and closest to her as she took them under with her and at that moment, they miraculously escaped. It then jumps at various stages to the scene of her discovery, to the use of the author's technology to explore her and work with Bob Ballard's team and is followed by the eye witness accounts compared to the evidence of the dive and the missions to the wreck. It covers the years immediately following her discovery when Ballard withdrew from the public gaze as the scale of what he had discovered became too much for him, to the continued work with the author to bring Titanic back to life. You get an in depth study of the eye witness evidence from the science of the time and from what we know now, and you get a real feel for the intimate relationship, crew, experts and discoverers had with this ship. You will be drawn into the world of each eye witness whose testimony is examined and you will see where fact and myth merge and are later separated and will be moved by the loss of families and partners and of the ship itself. Pellegreno uses the emotions and media of romance to bring us back to Titanic and some people may not like that idea, but you cannot but be moved by this and his follow up books that move onto the inquiry evidence and bring the finds up to date.

Charles Pellegrino is someone who has taken the facts and twisted him to move his story forward. None of the dialogue that he wrote ever happened. A reader who previously reviewed the book for animosity claims other historians are jealous of the info Pellegrino has access to. Well, how come most books and journals from the Titanic societies also print the same stories so obviously most have access. But they print it correctly, not embellishing to make the story better. Pellegrino is a hack writer. Why else would he claim that the Titanic was a Cunarder with marble staircases?