A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic

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Al final del libro, además, aparecen una serie de anexos que resulta de lo más interesante y que ayudan a comprender mejor cómo fueron las cosas. Durante la catástrofe. Dichos anexos incluye una lista de los pasajeros, un mapa con las diferentes partes en las que se articulaba el Titanic y y un capítulo que se centra en datos concretos del barco, como sus características físicas y el itinerario que siguió en su travesía. Se aprende muchísimo con este libro, no solo de la tragedia en sí, sino del impacto que tuvo para la sociedad del momento y cómo sirvió de preludio para hechos que vinieron a continuación, como la caída del Imperio Británico, la desaparición de las clases sociales o el estallido de la IGM. Fitch, Tad; Layton, J. Kent; Wormstedt, Bill (2012). On A Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the R.M.S. Titanic. Amberley Books. ISBN 978-1848689275.

Lowe paused long enough to smile and nod at her reassuringly. The boy was out now, anyhow, lying facedown near a coil of rope. Durante muchos años este libro ha sido considerado uno de los mejores trabajos relacionados con el Titanic. De hecho, Walter Lord llegó a asesorar a James Cameron durante el rodaje de su famoso film “Titanic”. La suya es una crónica pormenorizada del hundimiento minuto a minuto, desde el momento en que se avisto el iceberg hasta la llegada de los supervivientes a Nueva York abordo del Carpathia. Instante tras instante Lord va pasando de lugar a lugar del barco, de pasajero a pasajero con gran rapidez y agilidad, haciendo al lector participe con gran efectividad de todo lo que aconteció durante las horas que duro el naufragio . Esto dota a su relato de mucho dinamismo y permite que se consignen gran cantidad de detalles y hechos. Y también capta muy bien la tensión y el horror que fue paulatinamente subiendo de nivel a medida que el barco iba sumergiéndose, como poco a poco sus pasajeros fueron comprendiendo la magnitud de lo que, a primera vista, había parecido un choque sin importancia, y que a más de uno le hizo hasta gracia. Sin que se pierda de vista como muchos de ellos actuaron y se enfrentaron al desastre de forma individual muchos de sus pasajeros, la forma en que se llevó a cabo el salvamento de los pocos vivientes y el esfuerzo heroico de muchas de las personas que ahí estuvieron. Y todo esto con una prosa muy directa por parte de Lord. Va directamente al grano, pero sin perder de vista, ciertos detalles que nos muestra el lado más humano del hundimiento, las diferentes formas en que todos los implicados y actuaron, y que ayudan al lector a situarse dentro del barco y entre tantas personas. On Titanic, First Class passengers Sir Richard and Lady Richard, and Second Class passengers, the Clarkes, a young newlywed couple, overhear the band, led by Wallace Hartley. The band plays various songs, while steerage passengers Pat Murphy, Martin Gallagher, and James Farrel enjoy a party in Third Class, where Murphy becomes attracted to a young Polish girl and dances with her. Thirteen newlywed couples were on the Titanic. Many of these love stories would end in tragedy - John Jacob Astor (the richest man on board, died) and Madeleine Talmage Force Astor (survived), Daniel Marvin and Mary Farquharson Marvin (Daniel died, Mary survived), Victor Peñasco and Pepita Perezde de Soto y Vallejo Peñasco (Victor died, Pepita survived), Lucian Smith and Eloise Hughes Smith (Lucian died, Eloise survived), John Chapman and Lizzie Lawry Chapman (both died), John Bourke and Kate McHugh Bourke (both died), Neal McNamee and Eileen O’Leary McNamee (both died). Celeste Cumming Mt. Lebanon, "Early Titanic Film A Movie to Remember", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (11 September 1998), p. 39.Lord's invocation of an era of confidence and certainty was also a relevant theme at the height of the Cold War. [12] The University of California sociologist Fred Davis comments that nostalgia "thrives ... on the rude transitions wrought by such phenomena as war, depression, civil disturbance, and cataclysmic natural disasters – in short, those events that cause masses of people to feel uneasy and to wonder whether the world and their being are quite what they always took them to be." [13] The turmoil and uncertainty of the early Atomic Age and the onset of profound social changes made the old concepts of the nuclear family and traditional gender roles, reflected in the behaviour of Titanic 's passengers, resonate with a mid-1950s audience. [14] Also, Lightoller is depicted nearly being crushed by the fourth funnel falling in the ship's last moments. It was actually the first funnel that fell near Lightoller. [40] [41] [31] Norman Rossington, who appears as a steward who loses his temper with non-English speaking passengers just after the collision, also appears as the Master-at-Arms in S.O.S. Titanic (1979). Titanic continues to fascinate us 110 years later. Bill Paxton was right when he said, "I think you leave Titanic, but it never leaves you."

The first adaption for the book was the 1956 episode for the TV show Kraft Television Theatre on March 28 th for NBC; the episode was re-released a month later. The second adaption was the classic British film adaptation of the same name was released on July 3 rd, 1958. Lord was something of a harmless crank with a bit of a fascination with this big honkin' ship that had run into an iceberg a few decades before. He collected all the information on it he could. This being the 1950s, he then topped that off by interviewing many of the survivors of that disaster. (The fact that this was not that long after the Titanic sank, in terms of history, is pointed out by the fact that one of the Titanic stewards Lord interviewed was still working on trans-Atlantic passenger liners at the time the book came out.)Then came another switch. At the very last moment, he suddenly climbed into Boat C. Down it dropped, with 42 people including Bruce Ismay—just another passenger. By 2001, it had still not made a profit, in part because it was issued as part of a slate of ten films and all of its profits were cross-collateralised. [47] Reputation today [ edit ] Cameron’s Titanic ruled cinemas in 1997-98, breaking records and hoarding awards and filling the airwaves with Celine Dion. This came as a surprise to a lot of folks, but not those who had already been on the bandwagon, who recognized that the sinking of the Titanic is a near-perfect story of an incredibly imperfect voyage. Actually Guggenheim almost outdid himself. Gone was the sweater that Steward Etches made him wear. Also his life belt. Instead he and his valet now stood resplendent in evening clothes. “We’ve dressed in our best,” he explained, “and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.”