The Titanic: End of A Dream
by Wyn Craig Wade
On This Page
Description
In this centennial edition of the definitive book on the Titanic, new findings and interviews shed light on the world's most famous marine disaster for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking.On that fatal night in 1912 the world's largest moving object disappeared beneath the waters of the North Atlantic in less than three hours. Why was the ship sailing through waters well known to be a "mass of floating ice"? Why were there too few lifeboats? Why were a third of the survivors crew show more members? Based on the sensational evidence of the U.S. Senate hearings, eyewitness accounts, and the results of the 1985 Woods Hole expedition that photographed the ship, this electrifying account vividly re-creates the vessel's last desperate hours afloat and fully addresses the questions that have continued to haunt the tragedy of the Titanic. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Really good historical account.
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
Books Read in 2022
5,166 works; 114 members
Author Information
2 Works 543 Members
Wyn Craig Wade is a psychologist and historian. He is the best-selling author of The Titanic: End of a Dream, and is currently a full-time writer, as well as an instructor of psychology at Ivy Tech State College in Indiana.
Some Editions
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1979
- People/Characters
- Rhoda Abbott (Rose); Olaus Abelseth; Brooks Adams; Henry B. Adams; Lida Stokes Adams; J. P. Alexander (show all 195); Ernest Archer; Matthew Arnold; John Jacob Astor, IV; Madeleine Astor; Vincent Astor; Robert Bacon; Gilbert Balfour; Robert D. Ballard; Winton Baltzell; Policarpo Banilla; John Bannon; George Nicoll Barnes; Frederick Barrett; Janet Barry; Marion Becker; Richard Becker; Ruth M. Becker; Lawrence Beesley; Meyer Berger; Dickinson H. Bishop; Seaton Blake; Harriet Stanton Blatch; Stanley Bowdle; Joseph G. Boxhall; Louis Brandeis; Harold Bride; Joseph Bristow; John T. Brush; William Jennings Bryan; Daniel Buckley; Edward Buley; Charles C. Burlingham; Helen Churchill Candee; Alexander Carlisle; William E. Carter; Neville Chamberlain; Norman Campbell Chambers; G. K. Chesterton; Winston Churchill; Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Frederick Clench; George M. Cohan; Stanton Coit; John Collins; Charlotte Collyer; Hutch I. Cone; Joseph Conrad; Harold Thomas Cottam; Henry Couden; Alfred Crawford; Will Crooks; George Crowe; Shelby Moore Cullom; Robert W. Daniel; Clarence Darrow; Walter Douglas; G. A. Drayton; Theodore Dreiser; Reverend Eakin; Clement Edwards; Henry Samuel Etches; Cyril F. Evans; Frank Evans; Frederick Fleet; Henry Ford; Henry Moy Fot; Philip A. S. Franklin; Hugo P. Frear; Jacques Futrelle; Morgan Gable; James Gaffney; Mayn Clew Garnett; Ernest Gill; Arthur Greaves; Benjamin Guggenheim; J. Hagan; Albert Haines; Frederick Hamilton; John Hardy; Sir Edward Harland; John Hart; J. Wells Harvey; H. H. Haven; Charles Melville Hays; William Randolph Hearst; Ben Hecht; Samuel S. Hemming; W. B. Hibbs; Robert Hichens; Charles Hilles; G. A. Hogg; Martin C. Huggett; Harry Burns Hutchins; Abraham Hyman; J. Bruce Ismay; Thomas H. Ismay; Bruce Jackson; Holbrook Jackson; Carl Jansen; Rudyard Kipling; Louis Klein; Robert M. La Follette, Sr.; D. H. Lawrence; Charles Herbert Lightoller; Edward Lindell; Henry Cabot Lodge; Stanley Lord; Harold Godfrey Lowe; Cyrus Luce; John Lundahl; Clark McAdams; W. McCarthy; T. W. McCawley; James Robert McGough; William McKinley; William McKinstry; Guglielmo Marconi; Glenn Marston; John Maxtone-Graham; Henry F. May; Annie Nathan Meyer; George von Lengerke Meyer; Inez Milholland; James P. Moody; Clarence Moore; George Moore; J. Pierpont Morgan; Millicent Murby; William M. Murdoch; Charles Nagel; Jay Robert Nash; Maud Nathan; Henry Needham; Truman Newberry; Edward O'Donnell; Alfred Olliver; Frank Osman; Jim Pelham; George W. Perkins; Walter Perkis; John Phipps; Herbert J. Pitman; Daniel Ransdell; Morgan Robertson; John D. Rockefeller; E. K. Roden; Theodore Roosevelt; Arthur Henry Rostron; Alfred Rush; John Russell; David Sarnoff; Elizabeth Schutes; Alexander MacCullom Scott; Harry Senior; William Small; Herbert Knox Smith; John R. Snow; Julius Sop; Jim Speers; Alfred Stead; W. T. Stead; Charles Emil Henry Stengel; Robert Stocker; Melville Stone; Ida Straus; Isidor Straus; Nellie Taft; William Howard Taft; W. H. Taylor; Alfred Lord Tennyson; Celia Thaxter; Winfield Thomas; John Thompson; Carr Van Anda; Arthur Vandenberg; John Wanamaker; William Ward; Captain Waring; August E. Wennerstrom; Ralph White; Thomas Whitely; Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; George W. Wickersham; James Widgery; Henry T. Wilde; Woodrow Wilson; Alexander Woollcott; Doug Wooley; Hugh Woolner
- Important events
- Sinking of the Titanic; Discovery of the Titanic (1985-09-01)
- Related movies
- A Night to Remember (1958 | IMDb); Titanic: Death of a Dream (1994 | IMDb)
- Epigraph
- There was peace, and the world had an even tenor
to its ways. True enough, from time to time there
were events - catastrophes - like the Johnstown
Flood, the San Francisco Earthquake, or floods in
China - which ... (show all)stirred the sleeping world, but not
enough to keep it from resuming its slumber. It
seems to me that the disaster about to occur was
the event, which not only made the world rub its
eyes and awake, but woke with a start, keeping it
moving at a rapidly accelerating pace ever since,
with less and less peace, satisfaction and happi-
ness... To my mind the world of today awoke April 15, 1912.
-J0HN B. THAYER,
Titanic passenger - First words
- In the spring of 1851, the graceful expanse of London's Hyde Park was packed with a congregation awaiting the event of the century.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)By January 1, 1950, The White Star Line - celebrated for its creation of the fabulous Titanic - had ceased to exist.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 411
- Popularity
- 75,168
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.76)
- Languages
- English, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 18
- ASINs
- 3
