2012 marks the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic - once again giving rise to a lot of interesting speculation about the fateful ship and its owner.
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Timed to coincide with centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, a number of books have been lined up to shed new light on the enduring disaster and how it continues to haunt those who escaped the shipwreck. Besides several new books hitting the newsstands in the past couple of months, many earlier works on the compelling tragedy of 1912 are being re-issued. Leading the pack is "Titanic, First Accounts", a fascinating firsthand account of the Titanic in a deluxe package with graphic cover art. The book, published by Penguin and edited by Tim Maltin and Nicholas Wade, has historic accounts and testimonies by survivors and eye-witnesses including Lawrence Beesley, Margaret Brown, Archibald Gracie, Carlos F Hurd and many more
"How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J Bruce Ismay" by award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honour of the ship’s owner, J Bruce Ismay. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad's classic novel "Lord Jim", Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt - questions that revolve around Ismay's loss of honour and identity as his monolithic venture - a ship called "The Last Word in Luxury" and "The Unsinkable" - was swallowed by the sea and subsumed in infamy forever. The book, published by HarperCollins, spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on April 14, 1912, and one thousand men, lighting their last cigarettes, prepared to die, Ismay jumped into a lifeboat filled with women and children and rowed away to safety.
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