Archibald Gracie
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Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. He provides details of those final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they were being lowered, causing injury and further danger to life. Walter Lord, author of 'A Night to Remember', comments that Gracie's...
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Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[1997?]
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Contains four accounts of the sinking of the Titanic written by survivors, including two full-length books--"The Loss of the S.S. Titanic," by Lawrence Beesley, and "The Truth about the Titanic," by Col. Archibald Gracie; and featuring stories by Commander Lightoller, the only officer to survive, and wireless operator Harold Bride.