Name: A Night to Remember
Rating: 4.035714285714286 (28 reviews)
ISBN: 9780805077643

Walter Lord

Final hours of the titanic

A Night to Remember

Jeni Enjaian

This was a fascinating book. Before I could give it such a high rating I had to find out when it was published. I had a feeling that it had been published a fair amount of time in the past, specifically because the author referenced survivor testimony as having been given recently, a feat which would be impossible to accomplish today.

The night is so well known now thanks to the epic blockbuster of 1998. That does not change its intrinsically tragic nature. This historical narrative reads much more like fiction than non-fiction which was the wont of popular historians of that particular era. Some "facts" included (and portrayed as such) in this book would have been incredibly difficult to verify even at the time. Lord does not clarify this fact while in the midst of the narrative. (He does however include a few caveats at the end of the book.) This is a must-read narrative of that tragic night. 

The one negative thing I would say has to do with the summary at the end. It's completely unnecessary and repetitive.

I definitely recommend this book.

A Night to Remember Final hours of the titanic

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