Life on board the world’s most famous ship, in the words of the passengers themselves. The first book in which Titanic’s passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of the disaster entirely in their own words, via letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs written before, during and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many of the pre-sailing documents were written by people who later lost their lives in the sinking and represent the last communications that these people ever had with their friends and loved ones at home. These letters and postcards give an unparalleled description of the events that occurred during the five days that Titanic was at sea, and the communications that were written by survivors after the sinking describe the horror of the disaster itself and the heartbreak they experienced at the loss of their loved ones. AUTHOR: George Behe is a past vice president of the Titanic Historical Society. He has been interviewed and has acted as a consultant for several documentaries and Titanic books, and has written numerous articles about the ship for the Titanic Historical Society’s journal The Commutator. He has also been fortunate to have been able to count more than a dozen Titanic survivors among his personal friends. SELLING POINTS: . Paperback edition of this groundbreaking hardback . The result of 35 years of research by expert and ex- Titanic Historical Society vice president, George Behe . Original research: many of the documents had not been seen since 1912 prior to the publication of this book . Revealing letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs from both survivors and those who lost their lives in the tragedy . Also contains brief biographies of the passengers, victims as well as survivors, who created the documents in the book 30 b/w illustrations