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"Die Wahrheit über die Titanic", von Colonel Archibald Gracie, ist eine eindrucksvolle Darstellung des monumentalen Schiffsuntergangs, die der Autor als einer der wenigen Passagiere überhaupt überlebt hat . Das Buch ist als Hommage und Zeugnis für den "Heldentum aller Beteiligten" geschrieben worden. Colonel Gracie widerlegt viele der Presseberichte über die Katastrophe, wie zum Beispiel, dass der Kapitän und der Erste Offizier Selbstmord begingen. Vieles, was in den bekannten Kinofilmen gezeigt und erzählt wird, ist schlichtweg falsch. Die Geschichte der wunderbaren Rettung des Autors...

The Truth About the Titanic is a personal narrative of an American writer, soldier, amateur historian and real estate investor, Archibald Gracie who was one the Titanic sinking survivors. He survived the sinking by climbing aboard an overturned collapsible lifeboat. He was pulled into lifeboat No. 12, the last lifeboat to reach RMS Carpathia (the first rescue ship to arrive). Gracie returned to New York aboard Carpathia and immediately started workingon a book about his experiences aboard Titanic and Collapsible "B". This book is one of the most detailed accounts of the events of the evening;...

Here is a survivor's vivid account of the greatest maritime disaster in history. The information contained in Gracie's account is available from no other source. He provides details of those final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they were being lowered, causing injury and further danger to life. Walter Lord, author of "A Night to Remember," comments that Gracie's book written shortly before he died from the exposure he suffered on that night is "invaluable for chasing down who went in what boat," and calls...