Why name a ship after a defeated race?
Thomas Laqueur: New Lives of the ‘Titanic’, 24 January 2013
The Wreck of the ‘Titan’
by Morgan Robertson.
Hesperus, 85 pp., £8, March 2012,978 1 84391 359 7 Show More
by Morgan Robertson.
Hesperus, 85 pp., £8, March 2012,
Shadow of the ‘Titanic’
by Andrew Wilson.
Simon and Schuster, 392 pp., £8.99, March 2012,978 1 84739 882 6 Show More
by Andrew Wilson.
Simon and Schuster, 392 pp., £8.99, March 2012,
‘Titanic’ 100th Anniversary Edition: A Night Remembered
by Stephanie Barczewski.
Continuum, 350 pp., £15.99, December 2011,978 1 4411 6169 7 Show More
by Stephanie Barczewski.
Continuum, 350 pp., £15.99, December 2011,
The Story of the Unsinkable ‘Titanic’: Day by Day Facsimile Reports
by Michael Wilkinson and Robert Hamilton.
Transatlantic, 127 pp., £16.99, November 2011,978 1 907176 83 8 Show More
by Michael Wilkinson and Robert Hamilton.
Transatlantic, 127 pp., £16.99, November 2011,
‘Titanic’ Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew
by Richard Davenport-Hines.
Harper, 404 pp., £9.99, September 2012,978 0 00 732166 7 Show More
by Richard Davenport-Hines.
Harper, 404 pp., £9.99, September 2012,
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
by Hugh Brewster.
Robson, 338 pp., £20, March 2012,978 1 84954 179 4 Show More
by Hugh Brewster.
Robson, 338 pp., £20, March 2012,
‘Titanic’ Calling
edited by Michael Hughes and Katherine Bosworth.
Bodleian, 163 pp., £14.99, April 2012,978 1 85124 377 8 Show More
edited by Michael Hughes and Katherine Bosworth.
Bodleian, 163 pp., £14.99, April 2012,
“... a book called The Good Years, about the decade before the sinking. In Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, Hugh Brewster places the Titanic squarely in its era. (Brewster is a big player in Titanic’s media world – as his cover blurb says, he has ‘25 years’ experience’ in creating books about her.) Robber ... ”
