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Walter Lord

A Night to Remember

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

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Further Reading & Resources

Further Reading: Literature

Re-released in 2012 as The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the “Unsinkable” Ship—Titanic, this sequel to A Night To Remember, completes the two-volume set of The Titanic Chronicles.

Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)

Accounts of privileged passengers, including Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews; American Captain of Industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish American immigrant Ida Straus; and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson.

Accounts of survivors, including both famous first-class passengers like heiress Madeleine Astor and lesser-known second- and third-class passengers like the Navratil Brothers.

This book provides personal narratives of the Titanic’s upper-class survivors.

Titanic: First Accounts edited by Tim Maltin (2012)

This book includes firsthand accounts and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Elizabeth W.

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