A Night to Remember

by Walter Lord | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0553278274 Global Overview for this book
Registered by grubsneerg of Greensburg, Pennsylvania USA on 4/20/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by grubsneerg from Greensburg, Pennsylvania USA on Sunday, April 20, 2008
Bought new on amazon.com long before the James Cameron "Titanic" mania, but sometime after the Robert Ballard discovery of the shipwreck.

Journal Entry 2 by grubsneerg from Greensburg, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, February 22, 2010
Last month I sent a second copy of this book to Tribefan for the Akron reading festival. Her enthusiastic response on receiving and reading it was enough to make me find this copy and finally move it up to the top of Mt. TBR, so here goes!

Journal Entry 3 by grubsneerg from Greensburg, Pennsylvania USA on Thursday, February 25, 2010
Because this book was written in 1955, just 43 years after the sinking of the Titanic, many of the survivors were still alive and able to tell their stories to Walter Lord. How many times must they have been asked about what happened that fateful night? Lord does a good job of showing the chaos and confusion as he recounts those events, even as he tries to bring some semblance of order to them.

It was strange reading this, knowing that the book was written 30 years before the wreck was found by Dr. Robert Ballard and his team, knowing what we think we now know about what really happened that night--no giant gash in the ship, rather a buckling of the hull and failed rivets that allowed water to enter the ship through the seams of the ship's steel hull.

It is also strange to think that I have seen some of the Titanic artifacts that have been salvaged since the wreck was found, including a piece of the actual hull of the ship, a life belt worn by one of the survivors, and numerous personal belongings of survivors and those who weren't so lucky.

It seems the more we know, the more haunting the story becomes.

Journal Entry 4 by grubsneerg at Twin Lakes Park in Greensburg, Pennsylvania USA on Thursday, April 15, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (4/15/2010 UTC) at Twin Lakes Park in Greensburg, Pennsylvania USA

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