Author: Hazelgrove, William
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 320
Release Date: 01-09-2021
Details: Product Description One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history sinking by inches with luminaries from all over the world. It is a story of a network of wireless operators on land and sea who desperately sent messages back and forth across the dark frozen North Atlantic to mount a rescue mission. More than twenty-eight ships would be involved in the rescue of Titanic survivors along with four different countries. At the heart of the rescue are two young Marconi operators, Jack Phillips 25 and Harold Bride 22, tapping furiously and sending electromagnetic waves into the black night as the room they sat in slanted toward the icy depths and not stopping until the bone numbing water was around their ankles. Then they plunged into the water after coordinating the largest rescue operation the maritime world had ever seen and thereby saving 710 people by their efforts.The race to save the largest ship in the world from certain death would reveal both heroes and villains. It would begin at 11:40 PM on April 14, when the iceberg was struck and would end at 2:20 AM April 15, when her lights blinked out and left 1500 people thrashing in 25-degree water. Although the race to save Titanic survivors would stretch on beyond this, most people in the water would die, but the amazing thing is that of the 2229 people, 710 did not and this was the success of the Titanic rescue effort. . These two men tapping out CQD and SOS distress codes while the ship took on water at the rate of 400 tons per minute from a three-hundred-foot gash would inaugurate the most extensive rescue operation in maritime history using the cutting-edge technology of the time, wireless. Review Hazelgrove explodes the Hollywood fiction that the Titanic sinking displayed the best of British sangfroid, gallantry, and chivalry, as millionaires such as Guggenhiems and Vanderbilts and English aristocracy put their wives and children in lifeboats before settling down for a last cigar and Brandy." --Daily Express UK Normally, I wait a few days after finishing a book before I review it, but I literally just finished reading One Hundred and Sixty Minutes: The Race to Save the RMS Titanic by William Hazelgrove. I absolutely loved this book! If you think you know the history of the Titanic, think again and read this book....Honestly, there are not many nonfiction books I would consider page turners or that I literally couldn't put down but I finished this book in under forty eight hours. Hazelgrove morphs a seemingly well known story into a riveting tale in this stunning book! Wheather you are interested in Titanic or not, this is a book everyone should read. It's quite possible one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read! The Biased BibliophileOne might think that we know all there is to know about that April 14, 1912 story, but Hazelgrove, an energetically curious man, has unearthed a compelling and exciting story and effectively pokes holes in some of the persistent myths surrounding the tragedy. Chicago Tribune Titanic is a Great Story and This is a Great Book! WGN Chicago Rick Kogan A legion of books and films has honed the mythology of the indomitable British stiff upper lip maintained by doomed passengers and crew aboard the gargantuan vessel lost without hope or salvation in a vast ocean as the orchestra played on. But a new book explodes that fantasy...every soul on the Titan
EAN: 9781633886971
Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
Languages: English