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Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History

di Nick Barratt

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On April 15, 1912, the HMS Titanic sank, killing 1,517 people and leaving the rest clinging to debris in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic awaiting rescue. Here, historian Nick Barratt provides the definitive narrative of the disaster in the words of those who were involved--including the designers and naval architects at the White Star Line; first-class aristocratic passengers and the families in third class and steerage, many of whom were simply seeking a better life in America; and the boards of inquiry, whose task it was to help change maritime law to ensure that such an event never took place again. Combining tales of incredible folly and unimaginable courage, Barratt has gathered the aspirations of the owners, the efforts of the crew, and of course, the eyewitness accounts from those lucky enough to survive, transporting the reader back to those heartbreaking moments on that fateful Sunday night.--From publisher description.… (altro)
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Does the world really need yet another book on the Titanic? It all depends on the book...

In the preface to Lost Voices from the Titanic, author Nick Barratt quotes from the novel, The Cloud Atlas: “The disaster as it actually occurred descends into obscurity as its eyewitnesses die off, documents perish and the wreck of the ship dissolves in its Atlantic grave. Yet a virtual sinking of the Titanic, created from reworked memories, papers, hearsay, fiction – in short, belief – grows ever ‘truer.’ The actual past is brittle, ever-dimming and ever more problematic to access and reconstruct: in contrast, the virtual past is malleable, ever-brightening and ever more difficult to circumvent/expose as fraudulent.”

Barratt finished his book just before the death of the last survivor of the Titanic disaster, Millvina Dean, who was “the final link with an event that for everyone else on the planet is something we have only read about or viewed on television.” Barratt gathers the words of the people who actually helped construct the great ship, or sailed on its maiden and only voyage, or pulled survivors and bodies from the icy Atlantic, or testified before the inquiries held after the sinking. He enables us to feel what it was like to look at the Titanic without knowing the tragedy that was to befall it, and to have the experience of learning of that terrible night as though it were this morning’s news.

There are other quite excellent books that compile much longer first-hand accounts of the sinking -- The Story of the Titanic As Told by It’s Survivors comes to mind. But the sheer number of voices in Barratt’s book and the range of emotions they convey is particularly illuminating and moving. So did we need another Titanic book? I would say simply, yes. ( )
  ElizabethChapman | Dec 11, 2010 |
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On April 15, 1912, the HMS Titanic sank, killing 1,517 people and leaving the rest clinging to debris in the frozen waters of the North Atlantic awaiting rescue. Here, historian Nick Barratt provides the definitive narrative of the disaster in the words of those who were involved--including the designers and naval architects at the White Star Line; first-class aristocratic passengers and the families in third class and steerage, many of whom were simply seeking a better life in America; and the boards of inquiry, whose task it was to help change maritime law to ensure that such an event never took place again. Combining tales of incredible folly and unimaginable courage, Barratt has gathered the aspirations of the owners, the efforts of the crew, and of course, the eyewitness accounts from those lucky enough to survive, transporting the reader back to those heartbreaking moments on that fateful Sunday night.--From publisher description.

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