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Aug 13, 2015ryner rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Originally published in 1955, Lord's A Night to Remember provides a simple, beat-by-beat rundown of the events leading up to and during the tragic sinking of the Titanic. Numerous accounts of actual conversations and observations are presented, drawn from interviews from the survivors themselves. It's distressing to consider the number of details that had they gone differently may have completely altered the fate of the ship: "If the Titanic had heeded any of the six ice messages on Sunday...if ice conditions had been normal...if the night had been rough or moonlit...if she had seen the berg 15 seconds sooner--or 15 seconds later...if she had hit the ice any other way...if her watertight bulkheads had been one deck higher...if she had carried enough boats...if the Californian had only come." This and The Watch That Ends the Night would make an excellent fiction/nonfiction pairing.