Plus, there’s a character named Major Butt and plenty about the poop deck. Lots of deets, but heart-breaking stories and fascinating information and a time of glamor and pride and self-righteousness that was never quite to be again. I’m not sure I have much more to say about this book because it is all there in that last paragraph. (Try explaining to your kids that a simple sentence of factual information can recreate a heart-wrenching scene in your mind of a father sending his family away knowing he will never join them and that this scene makes you imagine your own husband on the deck waving goodbye to you and them they just look at you like you are nuts.)

I was riveted to all those details, and was moved to tears almost every night we read it. Still, the book is such a fascinating study of people in crisis and also of an era gone by, and does the whole thing with kid gloves, compassion, and panache. It is chock-full of details and ship vernacular just name after name and timelines and maps and temperatures and all that. I was wrong, but I did learn a lot about the Titanic.” It said on the website that it was for teenagers and grown-ups, but I thought I would like it anyways. It was very detailed and was hard to pay attention to. She’s not too happy that she did: I read it out loud to her and she synopsized in her report, “I would give this book one star out of five because I didn’t enjoy it. However, it is a sort of classic, and my daughter picked it out of a lineup for her third grade nonfiction book report. This book is not on my compiled list of best books of the world (which lists more than 1200 titles). William O’Loughlin Patrick Waddington Sir Richard Jack Watling Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall Credits Director Roy Ward Baker Produced by William MacQuitty Executive producer Earl St.A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord, was published in the 1950s but reissued by Holt Paperbacks in 1994. Hoyle George Rose Charles Joughin, the Baker Joseph Tomelty Dr. Yates Laurence Naismith Captain Edward John Smith Russell Napier Captain Stanley Lord Redmond Phillips Mr.

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