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This passionate yet balanced narrative explores every facet of the Titanic's history, including her spectacular conception in an Irish shipyard and the ambitious modern-day attempts to salvage her. The familiar story of the RMS Titanic—from her encounter with an iceberg to her demise some three hours later, taking with her more than fifteen hundred people—still looms large in the popular imagination, and in Daniel Butler's as well. He studied the Titanic's history for thirty years, intensively compiling facts about the disaster and the players involved (from Captain Smith and his crew to the ill-fated third-class passengers). He even made the startling discovery of a nearby ship that ignored the Titanic's distress call because the shipmates were afraid to awaken their captain. Drawn from primary sources and period accounts, this new narrative puts the disaster into historical context and serves as an essential resource for scholars of Titanic lore.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.91634
EAN: 9780306811104
ISBN: 0306811103
Label: Da Capo Press
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2002-03
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date: 2002-03-05
Studio: Da Capo Press
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Summary: Questionable
Comment: I have also spent a good part of my life researching the Titanic disaster, and I wonder about Butler's sources. Much of the book seems to be the product of a fertile imagination rather than research, or at the least, some serious extrapolation with known facts. I have examined practically everything I have found regarding the disaster and have yet to discover some of Butler's information.
A few years ago Butler virtually took over a USENET newsgroup concerning the Titanic, insulting some of the members and setting himself up as an undisputed authority on the disaster. Eventually he ran off many of the members, including myself.
Before that occurred, I corresponded with him about one minor item I had found in the book, a notation that the USS Scorpion had collided with a Soviet submarine and this led to her loss. I wrote to him and asked him about his source, and if he had any more details. He told me that he had "heard" about it when he was in Army Intelligence, and could discuss it no further. However, in the book it is stated as a fact.
This book has a great deal of information in it, but when you are required to question almost everything contained in it, then its value as a historical document is severly diminished.
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Summary: Well worth the time
Comment: Really excellent! This book must have taken a crazy amount of research. The author essentially synthesizes every book, diary, inquiry, and research project about the Titanic into a clear and readable storyline. The book reads like a novel, but is well-footnoted and is clearly grounded in the facts. One of the best features of this book is the way Butler takes quotes and memories from all (credible) sources and goes back to put them in the mouths of people as the events take place. For example, instead of writing that someone remembers John Jacob Astor saying something as the crew was loading life Boat #6, the author actually has Astor say it when he gets to that part of the story. This keeps the story's timeline much more linear and makes it easier to process. It follow the Titanic from her design and building through the investigations of her sinking. Butler wraps up with a "where are they now" synopsis of survivors and details the continuing salvage controversies.
Butler also takes time to explain historical contexts, such as class divisions and social expectations of the era, when he feels it will benefit the readers. These asides really help bring the motivations and behavior of the people involved in this tragedy to life, in a way some caricatures of poor schmucks stuck in steerage fail to do.
My only issues with the book are fairly minor. There is a glossary at the end, but I wish it were at the beginning (or at least referred to). If you aren't the seafaring type, it will help to learn the terms (like greaser, starboard, and bulkhead) before you start reading so that you can understand Butler's descriptions of the ship. You can get by without this, but it would help to know. I also highly recommend finding a map of the Titanic online and keeping it close at hand while you read. There are a lot of descriptions of the various decks, sections, and design components in the book and they are hard to keep straight without some sort of illustration. If you really want to understand the way the night unfolded, you'll need a map to keep it all straight.
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Summary: One of the best
Comment: Next to "A Night to Remember" this is the best retelling of the entire Titanic Story. Starting long before Night, and ending far after it's retelling, this is a meticulous minute by minute retelling of the story by an author who has spent a lifetime collecting data and quotes.
It references all of the other standard Titanic Texts, and as such, serves as the most complete summary of all of them in one tome. The book is a fast read, and its interesting facts go far and beyond what a student of the Titanic might get from reading any other single text.
A fine work that is a true addition to Titanica.
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Summary: Is Walter Lord the author???
Comment: Historically accurate, however, with the far too many direct quotes from
Walter Lord's book "A Night To Remember" makes "Unsinkable" a book to forget.
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Summary: Excellent retelling, kept me up all night!
Comment: I loved this book! It gave good solid facts written how history should be written. I could see the disgusted face of the quartermaster and captain as they fired off their last rocket, could see Phillips and Bride in the wireless room, could see the women crying for their husbands.
As someone who still believes in "Women and Children First" and has held on to many of the values in this book, although not the class rigidity, the way he honored the sacrifices of many and the best- and the worst- of people that night is what made this book a great read for me.
I find the Titanic disaster so interesting because it did not show the best and the worst of the era, but the best and worst of mankind. A sense of duty, protecting the weaker, giving your life for others- those are not traits limited to any era or class anymore then inertia ( for example seen by both some of the third class passengers and the Chief Officer), tastelessness or cowardice are.
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