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Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, Titanic Lives is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history.
On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage, the seemingly unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg, sustaining a 300-feet gash as six compartments were wrenched open to the Atlantic Ocean. In little over two hours, the palatial liner nose-dived to the bottom of the sea. More than 1,500 people perished in the freezing waters. But who were they?
In Titanic Lives, Richard Davenport-Hines brings to life in fascinating and absorbing detail the stories of the men who built and owned the ship, the crew who serviced her and the passengers of all classes who sailed on her. The Titanic was a floating microcosm of Edwardian society at the bottom of the ship was third class, filled with economic migrants and political and religious refugees hoping for a better life in the New World. Above them were hundreds of second-class passengers buoyed up by their prosperous respectability. On the upper decks were the hereditary rich and those of inconceivable wealth American titans of industry such as John Jacob Astor IV, who was found with $4000 in sodden notes in his pockets. In this epic, sweeping history we are introduced to this broad cast of characters, from every class and every continent, as we follow their lives on board the ship through to the supreme dramatic climax of the disaster itself.
Published to coincide with the centenary of the sinking, Titanic Lives is an impeccably researched and utterly riveting history which re-creates the complexities, disparities and tensions of life one hundred years ago.
An astonishing work, of meticulous research, which allows us to know, in painful detail, the men and women on that fateful voyage. Even now, a hundred years later, Mr Davenport-Hines finds a new, and heart-breaking, story to tell. Julian Fellowes
Eloquent and absorbing... As well as being a fascinating work of social history, Titanic Lives is a remarkable study of empathy and its absence. As such it will stay afloat long after the armada of other Titanic books have gone down. Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph
Though it seems shameful to admit it, the one certain benefit we have derived from the tragedy is a shattering human story that is also, when told as well as Davenport-Hines tells it, utterly compelling. John Carey, Sunday Times
Fascinating social history Dominic Sandbrook
a substantial new account...This may well be, at last, the definitive Titanic book... Davenport-Hines relishes historical background and details, but he also has a good eye for riveting details...powerfully original. Davenport-Hines gives a brilliant account of the great global adventure of migration... This book is a considerable moral as well as historical achievement. Times Literary Supplement
Brilliant social history The Spectator
Excellent Evening Standard
Moving, original and deeply researched The Guardian
Davenport-Hines s immaculately researched history brings an extraordinary cavalcade of characters to vivid life Sunday Telegraph
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