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Title: The definitive book (with its sequel) on the Titanic
Review: Over a thousand people died; countless widows and orphans were left destitute; the bodies of hundreds were never recovered. Entire families perished; babies drowned in their mother's arms; young women with their lives ahead of them froze to death in the icy waters.Walter Lord writes of these people, describing with eloquence their lives and what led them to board the doomed liner. And although we've learned more about the disaster than was known at the time this book was written, Lord's sympathy for the dead and his judgment of the guilty are far from out of date.And that's the tragedy of Titanic; not some silly teenage-girl romance gone awry, but the deaths of so many innocents with their lives ahead of them and the realization that it was completely and totally preventable.This book is worth every penny. I highly recommend it -- and its sequel, The Night Lives On.
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