An Unofficial 'The Rest Is History' Reading List
431. Titanic: Nightmare at Midnight (Part 5)
March 19, 2024
Description
Books Referenced
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.
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.
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.'