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The Titanic story : hard choices, dangerous decisions

Author: Stephen D Cox
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The author refutes the most popular stories about the sinking of the Titanic and "shows that the true story is more interesting than the myth, and much more disturbing."--Cover.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen D Cox
ISBN: 0812693965 9780812693966
OCLC Number: 40744475
Description: xx, 152 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The Great Story xi --
Chapter 1 "There Is No Time to Waste" 1 --
Chapter 2 "He Ought to Have Gone Down with the Ship" 19 --
Chapter 3 "Exercise Your Own Common Sense" 33 --
Chapter 4 "Well, Boys, Do Your Best" 45 --
Chapter 5 "Make Your Ship as Unsinkable as You Can" 61 --
Chapter 6 "It Would Have Been Outrageously Bad Seamanship" 73 --
Chapter 7 "I Knew It Was My Duty" 85 --
Chapter 8 "What Was It You Were Afraid Of?" 91 --
Chapter 9 "Spectators of a Drama" 105 --
Chapter 10 "He Was Never the Same Again" 123 --
Bibliography: The Titanic Story in Other Books 139.
Responsibility: Stephen Cox.

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The author refutes the most popular stories about the sinking of the Titanic and "shows that the true story is more interesting than the myth, and much more disturbing."--Cover.

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