It is a marvelous job of editing and storytelling. It tells the complete timeline of Titanic’s journey into history. What the author has done here, and what the narrator has taken to another level, is to select excerpts from various survivor, accounts, and weave them together to bring you onboard. The original survivor accounts, written in the prose of 1912, can be pretty dry reading. In many ways, it reminds me of “The Only Plane in the Sky,“ the account of 9/11 told through eyewitness accounts. What makes this recording special is its selection of survivor accounts to bring the reader onboard for the journey, the sinking, and the rescue. When I received a $10 coupon for a free Audible book, I chose this one, purely because of the price, and with low expectations. I own almost every book on the subject, including all of the survivors’ published accounts. I have been a “Titanic Buff” for almost 60 years.
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