Titanic: A Survivor's Story & the Sinking of the S.S. Titanic

Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. The information contained in Colonel Gracie's story is available from no other source. He provides details of the 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. Walter Lord, author of A Night to Remember, calls Gracie an indefatigable detective. John Thayer was, like Gracie, one of the last to leave the ship. His account, The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic, is meticulously detailed. The sinking of the Titanic was, in his eyes, a symbol of the end of the world that he knew, and the beginning of a frightening new era.

Author: Colonel Archibald Gracie, John B. Thayer
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 08/30/2005
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.45h x 5.05w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9780897334525
ISBN10: 0897334523
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding | General

About the Author
Colonel Archibald Gracie IV was an American writer, real estate investor, and survivor of the sinking of the Titanic. Gracie was a member of the prominent Gracie family, which had built the famed Gracie Mansion, currently the residence of the mayor of New York City. He wrote two books, The Truth About Chickamauga and The Truth About the Titanic, a detailed account of the sinking from a survivor's perspective. Gracie's health suffered as a result of the ordeal, and he passed away less than eight months later, his dying words being We must get them all into the boats. John B.Thayer was 17 at the time he escaped from death in the sinking of the Titanic.