This is explained by passengers and sank. The lifeboats themselves were not filled with those being launched first having the fewest passengers in them and the latter having more. The same was true of men but not as many men were saved as women. Many stories came out about the loading of the lifeboats and how men came to be saved before many of the second- and third-class women. Nearly all first-and second-class children were saved, but only about 1/3 of third-class children survived. On April 14, 1912, the largest passenger ship, The Titanic, which sailed from Southhampton, England, hit an iceberg third of the third-class women survived. Titanic Voices: 63 Survivors Tell Their Extraordinary Stories is by Hannah Holman. If you are going to read this, then do so sparingly, one story at a time, then I think you’ll enjoy it. It is for this reason that I have to give this book a four out of five.

Eventually, I would just skim the rest with no real consequence, nor any information lost, overall. As my father always says of the Titanic film: You know what is going to happen, the ship sinks every time. While it is fascinating and interesting that these people went through this harrowing ordeal, it does become rather dry and dull after a time. This book has excellent primary and secondary sources about what happened as the Titanic sank, so why don’t I give it five stars? Well, this is an example of a primary selling point, also being a primary problem. The author also provides a detailed account of what happened to each person before and after the Titanic sank.

Each corresponding tale tells about how the person in question survived the sinking.

You see, it has many different perspectives of the sinking, with every different view shown based on the rough estimate of when each boat was launched. Was it as good as I imagined in terms of providing a first hand account of the sinking? Yes, and that is part of the problem. So when I found this at my local bookstore, I could not resist and decided to pick it up. I have also watched many documentaries and seen museum exhibits on the topic. My interest in the Titanic goes far beyond the film interpretation of the sinking. This book was one that I was looking forward to reading.

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