Titanic 9 Hours to Hell
The Survivors' Story
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
It was twenty minutes to midnight on Sunday 14 April, when Jack Thayer felt the Titanic lurch to port, a motion followed by the slightest of shocks. Seven-year old Eva Hart barely noticed anything was wrong. For Stoker Fred Barrett, shovelling coal down below, it was somewhat different; the side of the ship where he was working caved in.
For the next nine hours, Jack, Eva and Fred faced death and survived. They lived, along with just over 700 others picked up by 08.30 the next morning. Over 1500 people did not. This is the story told through the eyes of Jack, Eva, Fred and over a hundred others of those who survived and either wrote their experiences down or appeared before the major inquiries held subsequently.
Drawing extensively on their collective evidence, this book weaves the narrative of the events that occurred in those nine fateful hours. This is their story, and those of a fateful night, when the largest ship ever built sank without completing one successful voyage.
Customer Reviews
One of the best books I’ve ever read on the subject
As an author of a titanic book myself, and as someone who has been borderline obsessed with the titanic for most of my life, I can say with a great deal of confidence that this book is a must read for any titanic enthusiast. Every bit as good as, “A Night to Remember”, but with much appreciated additional facts and insights into the inception, construction, and layout of the great ship, as well as of course being able to answer a number of additional questions, having been released more than 50 years after A Night to Remember. So it really does cover everything from the inception, all the way to the rediscovery of the ship. I still feel that it should be read in combination with other books on the subject if you are a true enthusiast of the titanic, but it is definitely one of the best books I have ever read on the subject.