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The Sinking of the Titanic
by Logan Marshall (ed.)

Nonfiction e-Book-of-the-Month, Dec 1999.
Available as an e-book edition in Qvadis Express Reader format, or for your personal library in a paper edition from Amazon.com.

THE BROAD BRUSHTROKES of the popular movie have made the images indelible in our minds. In this book, readers will find that the real story behind the RMS Titanic sea disaster is - without the make-believe love story or the special effects - just as wondrous, and just as horrific. Originally published in 1912, this recounting provides an amazing wealth of detail - from the ship's construction to the personal stories of survivors - and manages to paint a canvas that is at once epic and intimate.

An excerpt from Chapter XIV:
"I had been in my berth for about ten minutes, when, at about 11:15 p.m., I felt a slight jar, and then soon after a second one, but not sufficiently violent to cause any anxiety to anyone, however nervous they may have been. However, the engines stopped immediately afterward, and my first thought was, 'She has lost a propeller.'

"I went up on the top (boat) deck in a dressing gown, and found only a few persons there, who had come up similarly to inquire why we had stopped, but there was no sort of anxiety in the minds of anyone.

"We saw through the smoking room window a game of cards going on, and went in to inquire if they knew anything; it seems they felt more of the jar, and, looking through the window, had seen a huge iceberg go by close to the side of the boat. They thought we had just grazed it with a glancing blow, and that the engines had been stopped to see if any damage had been done. No one, of course, had any conception that the vessel had been pierced below by part of the submerged iceberg."

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