The Making of a Titanic Disaster
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (696 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007UKH3N0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Everything about «Titanic» was larger-than-life; her conception, her launch, her sins, her heroes, and her judgment. While there had been harsh logic to the decisions that led to the disaster, there had also been a heroic side not to be forgotten. Both were being built at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. For this tragedy, with the loss of over 1,500 lives, was the result of wrongdoings, not of one man but a whole body of men. The White Star Line’s advertisements in the early months of 1912 had focused solely on the two new super-luxurious ocean-liners the company soon would take delivery of. Large headlines and voluminous reports in papers like the New York Tribune and The Times of London brought the disaster into millions of homes and work places. And the lessons to be learned were many.Douglas Phillip of the ‘TitanicSociety’ has recently been quoted having said; “The events of April 14-15, 1912, are the closest thing that we have to a modern-day Bible story. The chief designer, Thomas Andrew, was a nephew of the H&W Company’s managin
rmkey said Titanic Blood and Steel. Very well done. Tastefully depicted. I would recommend.