Icon of an Age: Titanic

by Michael McCaughan

Titanic was not only a ship that embodied technological achievement; she was a microcosm of western civilisation and its misplaced certainties in a gilded age before World War 1.

She was the second of an intended trio of huge passenger vessels built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line's premier service between Southampton and New York. When she sank, 1,500 of the 2,201 people on board lost their lives and the news caused shockwaves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856408654
• ISBN13: 9780856408656
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Blackstaff Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 10.9"