Mrs Straus’s Devotion
Jenny Diski, 5 June 1997
Last Dinner on the ‘Titanic’: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner
by Rick Archbold and Dana McCauley.
Weidenfeld, 128 pp., £9.99, April 1997,1 86448 250 8 Show More
by Rick Archbold and Dana McCauley.
Weidenfeld, 128 pp., £9.99, April 1997,
The ‘Titanic’ Complex
by John Wilson Foster.
Belcouver, 92 pp., £5.99, April 1997,0 9699464 1 4 Show More
by John Wilson Foster.
Belcouver, 92 pp., £5.99, April 1997,
“... We are moved but not overwrought at the fate of those who died at Pompeii, with the sinking of the Mary Rose, during the San Francisco earthquake and at the collapse of the Tay Bridge. We respond much more uneasily to the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise, the Estonia and the Marchioness. Lives cut short are less poignant once, to paraphrase Beckett, they would have died anyway ... ”
