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Titanic Scandal: The Trial of the Mount Temple by Senan Molony - Book Review

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ISBN: 9781445649481
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Published: Amberley Publishing - July 15th, 2015

One of the questions that still surrounds the loss of the Titanic is the identity of what has come to be known as the "Mystery Ship." Survivors reported seeing lights from a nearby vessel that failed to render aid. Official inquiries after the tragedy blamed the Californian, a small steamer, where eight white distress rockets were sighted by crew members. This book presents a convincing case that the Mount Temple was also very close to the site of the disaster and that its captain was under strict orders not to risk the vessel by venturing into a known icefield. A fascinating reexamination and reevaluation of an enduring mystery. ~ Reviewed by Alden Graves


Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic by Daniel Stone - Book Review

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ISBN: 9780593329375
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Published: Dutton - August 16th, 2022

It is estimated that there are three million shipwrecks in various bodies of water all over the globe. None of them have been as firmly lodged in the minds and imaginations of generations of people as the remains of the Titanic. Plans to raise the lost White Star ship were formulated soon after the disaster. Throughout much of the twentieth century, schemes involving magnets, explosives, and inflatable pontoons were concocted and abandoned. Despite the expenditure of millions of dollars, locating the liner's final resting place frustrated every effort. Sinkable is a vastly informative examination of many aspects of the Titanic story that have been overlooked in even the most minutely detailed histories of the tragedy. It is also a fascinating study of the vagaries, the elements, and the power of the oceans. ~ Reviewed by Alden Graves


The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World by Bryan Appleyard - Book Review

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ISBN: 9781639362301
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Published: Pegasus Books - September 6th, 2022

An insightful, witty, often wild ride in the defining technology of the past 140 years. Appleyard effortlessly steers his narrative through the monumental social and economic effects of the car, and speculates, with some concern, whether Elon Musk will spark societal changes as significant as those forged by Henry Ford. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare


Titanic: Why She Collided, Why She Sank, Why She Should Never Have Sailed by Senan Molony - Book Review

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ISBN: 9781493055494
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Published: Lyons Press - July 1st, 2021

A startling new examination of the most famous maiden voyage in history. The fact that the Titanic was technically a ship on fire was brought up at both the American and the British hearings into the disaster. The author presents a valid case that, although the blaze in the three story coal bunker was finally extinguished the day before the liner's encounter with the iceberg, the structural weakening resulting from the heat exacerbated the damage done by the ice. This is the perfect book for anyone who thinks they know everything about that night to remember. ~ Reviewed by Alden Graves


The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship by Greg King - Book Review

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ISBN: 9781250194534
Published: St. Martin's Press - April 7th, 2020

With her gleaming white superstructure, jet black hull, and canted funnel sporting the national colors, the Italian liner Andrea Doria was the most strikingly beautiful of the postwar transatlantic passenger vessels. On July 25, 1956 she collided with Stockholm, a Swedish motorship in a dense fog off Nantucket. The reinforced bow of the Stockholm penetrated 40 feet into the Doria's starboard side, cutting a swath of destruction and death and inflicting a mortal wound. This is a meticulous account of the liner's last hours and of the largest sea rescue in peacetime history. Harrowing, tense, and memorable. ~ Reviewed by Alden Graves


Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien - Book Review

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ISBN: 9781328876645
Published: Mariner Books - August 7th, 2018

The iconic Amelia Earhart joined a cadre of women determined to challenge men in wildly popular, but often deadly, airplane races in the Great Depression. Speed and spectacle fueled airborne ambitions where pilots, female and male, risked death for the rush to triumphantly soar. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare


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