- Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; First THUS edition (6 April 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671025538
- ISBN-13: 978-0671025533
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #53 in Books > Reference > Transport > Ships > Ships & Shipwrecks
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Illustrated with historical photographs, this book provides the official transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation into the sinking of the Titanic. It contains eyewitness accounts from the survivors of the disaster, which were taken just days after they were rescued.
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. . . SENATOR SMITH: Will you kindly tell the committee the circumstances surrounding your voyage, and, as succinctly as possible, beginning with your going aboard the vessel at Liverpool, your place on the ship on the voyage, together with any circumstances you feel would be helpful to us in this inquiry? Read the first page
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. . . SENATOR SMITH: Will you kindly tell the committee the circumstances surrounding your voyage, and, as succinctly as possible, beginning with your going aboard the vessel at Liverpool, your place on the ship on the voyage, together with any circumstances you feel would be helpful to us in this inquiry? Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Well worth it,
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This review is from: The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a fine pocket sized digest of the U.S. Senate Inquiry into the loss of the R.M.S. Titanic. It leaves you wanting more.
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excellent,
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this is a fantastic book, and i hear the book on tape hired 25 actors to play the parts. a historical docudrama in its purest sense.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (23 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Great reading for the Titanic enthusiast that has questions.,
By joann.silva@gte.net - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation (Mass Market Paperback)
I've slowly gathered more and more information about the Titanic disaster and this book gives voices to those old photos we've all seen. It truly is an unfolding of human drama and you can feel the frustration and tension in the questions and answers. I found myself reading the answers in a British accent! Not only do these transcripts add a personal dimension to the characters, but they also give first-hand accounts and facts, facts, facts. I love that!
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INTERESTING, INFORMATIVE, SPELLBINDING,
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This review is from: The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation (Mass Market Paperback)
I am a fourteen year old fanatic on the subject of the Titanic, and I feel that this is the ultimate book of the Titanic disaster. A real infomative book that any Titanic buff should own. This book is a real bible of the disaster of the century. It discusses issues, and topics that weren't quite heard about before. It is a factual recollection from passengers and crew as the recount the sights and sounds of that fatefull night in April of 1912, with an interesting intro by the author, Tom Kuntz. I like the fact that this book displays very interesting statistic at the end of the text. Sometimes there are parts that you would really like answers to but the "interviewees" can't remember them, that could be frustrating if your like me (wanting the scoop on every little detail). Anyway I love this book and am really glad it is a part of my Titanic collection.
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Unsinkable and Unthinkable! The Senate Investigates Titanic!,
By Kelly Langston-Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the Titanic book you are looking for. Far from being one of the many novelizations or non-fiction novel type history reports, this is testimony straight from the survivor's mouths about what happened the night disaster struck. We are all familiar with C-Span senate hearings of the past few decades, but this is one of the interesting ones condensed into an exciting and informative volume. Questioning began mere days after the accident as the Carpathia pulled into New York with the few souls who made it. Even the slightly repetative nature of the senator's questions from person to person revealed a new fact or two about the sinking of the unsinkable ship.For those whose knowledge of the Titanic comes mostly from James Cameron, this volume is a wealth of first hand information that didn't get covered in the blockbuster film. Most shocking was that the ship, the Californian, was within sight of the Titanic and saw her distress rockets but didn't come to her aid, even though they could have gotten there before the ship sank. This volume also covers other interesting aspects of the case like the yellow journalism practiced as papers vied for exclusive rights to stories, Bruce Ismay trying to get everyone on a ship back to England before they could be questioned in America and The Wall Street Journal giving false reports that Titanic was fine so that certain stocks didn't plummet. Many of the controversial aspects of the case are addressed to a satisfactory degree, but you can see some pat answers and bet hedging in some of the testimony. Fascinating Stuff! |
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