An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List

431. Titanic: Nightmare at Midnight (Part 5)

March 19, 2024

Description

“A story of horror unparalleled in the annals of the Sea.” On the 14th of April 1912, Titanic, a floating palace sailing through the North Atlantic, found itself hurtling towards a formidable...
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Books Referenced

A Night to Remember

Author: Walter Lord

Context:

Referenced as a source for survivors' descriptions of the sounds they heard when the Titanic hit the iceberg, with examples of how people described the grinding and scraping noises.

Titanic Lives

Author: Richard Davenport Hines

Context:

Referenced multiple times throughout the episode as a key source for the Titanic story, including examples of survivors' accounts, stories of specific passengers like Emma Bucknell and Rhoda Abbott, and analysis of the tragedy.

Bacon's Essays

Author: Francis Bacon

Context:

Referenced as a 1598 first edition that passenger Henry Widner picked up before the sinking. A fellow bibliophile called this 'the most touching, most pathetic, with all the most glorious incident in the romance of book collecting.'