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The Emperors by Gareth Russell5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In The “Ship of Dreams”, British historian Gareth Russell chronicles six passengers’ histories and fates, putting such a human face on the disaster-from the shipyard workers building the Titanic in Belfast, Ireland, to the grieving crowds in New York awaiting the survivors’ arrival aboard the SS Carpathia-that he proves Titanic’s story is very much worth rediscovering. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era of seismic change. ![]() When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. It is a tragedy that has become a legend, a myth and a “synonym for catastrophe.” Is there still more to say? Hundreds of books and articles, memoirs and interviews, two formal inquiries, several lawsuits, many movies and 10 suicides followed. Of the 2,208 people aboard the ship, 1,496 passengers and crew died, and 712 survived. More than a hundred years ago, on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to New York, the “unsinkable” RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. ![]() Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey “Gareth Russell has chosen a handful of passengers on the doomed liner and by training a spotlight on every detail of their lives, he has given us a meticulous, sensitive, and at times harsh picture of the early 20th century in Britain and America. ![]()
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