On a Sea of Glass: The Life & Loss of the RMS Titanic

by J. Kent Layton, Tad Fitch, Bill Wormstedt

Book Overview

On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brandnew, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold waters of the North Atlantic. How could this 'unsinkable' vessel sink and why did so few of those aboard survive? The authors bring the tragedy to life,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144564701X
• ISBN13: 9781445647012
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.6"