by Walter Lord · Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780805077643
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«A Night to Remember» is Walter Lord's historical essay on the Titanic's final hours, published by Macmillan in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Walter Lord reconstructs minute by minute the Titanic's last night, from the collision with the iceberg to the sinking, based on interviews with more than sixty survivors. The narrative alternates between passengers' and crew's perspectives and shows acts of heroism, panic, and sacrifice on the ocean liner believed to be unsinkable.
50th anniversary edition, with an introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick; the account was originally published in 1955.
For readers of maritime and Titanic history, and for those who appreciate narrative nonfiction about real disasters.
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, was a Royal Navy officer. After taking part in the Crimean War and then the Indian Mutiny, he supervised the handover of Ulcinj to Montenegro to allow Montenegro an outlet to the sea in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Berlin. He became Flag Captain to the Commander-in-Chief, Channel Squadron and then Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet. He went on to be Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet, then Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron and finally became First Naval Lord. In that capacity he presided over a period of continued re-armament in the face of German naval expansion but was unceasingly harassed by Admiral Sir John Fisher.
