Titanic

• The fascinating story of twelve passengers on board the Titanic - on the centenary of her sinking
• Offers a minute-by-minute account of the doomed liner's last hours through a representative cross-section of those who sailed in her: men and women, old and young, pasengers and crew, First Class to Third Class
• Includes a rich cast of eye-witnesses: a ship's captain, a second officer, a wireless operator, a stewardess, an amateur military historian, a governess, a teacher, a domestic servant, a mother, and three children
• Tells the story of where they were from, what happened to them on the night of the sinking, and what happened to those who survived in the years afterwards

Readership: All those interested in the story of the Titanic, its sinking, and the stories of those who sailed aboard her.

John Welshman, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Lancaster University

John Welshman is the author or editor of six books on twentieth-century British social history and has held posts at the Universities of Leicester, Oxford, and York. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. His latest book, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain (2010), is also published by Oxford University Press.

"As thorough and yet compassionate an account as the disaster is ever likely to have." - Open Letters Monthly

Introduction: The Last Night of a Small Town
1: 'The Biggest Anchor in the World'
2: 'Like a Big Expectant Family'
3: 'A Wonderful Passage Up To Now'
4: 'Ice, Flat Like a Pocket Watch'
5: 'We Have Collision with Iceberg'
6: 'Latitude 41? 46' N., Longitude 50? 14' W'
7: 'She's Gone, Lads; Row Like Hell'
8: 'A Dark Speck on the Horizon'
9: 'Arranged for Your Exclusive Story'
10: 'Mr Beesley's Simple Narrative'
Notes
Index