Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy: A Chronicle in Words and Pictures: A Chronicle in Words in Pictures - Hardcover

Charles A. Haas; John P. Eaton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857330241 ISBN 13: 9780857330246

Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

In her brief life the Titanic, at the time of her launch the world's largest man-made moving object, inspired huge excitement and speculation. Today, 100 years since she sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives, public interest continues undimmed. This substantial book, long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, has been fully updated in a centenary edition that chronicles the latest chapters in this compelling story, including dives to the wreck, dramatic courtroom conflicts, details proved and disproved, and more than 100 evocative new photographs.

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Review:

An update of the classic reference book first published in 1986, this new edition includes color photographs of the wreck and some pieces salvaged from it, an explanation of the complex legal wrangling over salvage rights, a chapter entitled "Titanic, Today and Tomorrow" with a time line of Titanic-related events since the second edition was published in 1997, and new appendixes. Eaton and Haas also write of their own voyage to the wreck site, an experience of which most Titanic authors cannot boast. The first edition's subtitle was A Chronicle in Words and Pictures and, indeed, the pictures have always been a major strength of the work, showing more images of people and places related to the ship than any other book. VERDICT: A must-have for anyone interested in Titanic; worth updating to this new edition. - Library Journal, March 5, 2012 As we approach the centenary of this dreadful tragedy, a third edition of "Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy" by the above authors has been published. Their work has long been regarded as one of the most detailed and authoritative books on the loss of White Star's Titanic. This is a beautifully produced book, lavishly illustrated, and fully updated to include dives to the wreck, dramatic courtroom conflicts and highly evocative new photographs. This would be an excellent addition to any maritime library. Highly recommended. Sea Breezes From collectibles to gravestones, concert programmes to views of other ships on the North Atlantic that night, this is the one publication that really does go closest to claiming to have it all. And now one imitates Eaton and Haas and ceases to write to length a the cognoscenti know the worth of T&T already, and it is weighed in the troy ounce. A triumph indeed in this expanded third edition. If ever shipwrecked, yet allowed by ministering angels of grace to save a single volume for the remaining years marooned upon a desert island, the discerning Titaniac could hardly do better than to ask for this one. Encyclopedia Titanica- December 8, 2011 We're just coming into 2012 and already we have a Titanic book on our desk, but it's only to be expected as we reach the centenary of the 1912 sinking of the most famous passenger liner in history. But this is no 'me too' offer: this is the third edition of an already definitive work, newly published with more than 100 new photographs, significant additional text and the most accurate passenger list yet published.If there is one Titanic volume to have, this is it. It's a chunky read and the story and photos are wonderful. We particularly enjoyed the chapter relating to the British investigation that followed the tragedy a and it is all here in glorious detail.There will be many programmes this year on Titanic but for the great-grandmother of the days of passenger liners a this is the volume to cherish. Old Glory- December 15, 2011 We're just coming into 2012 and already we have a Titanic book on our desk, but it's only to be expected as we reach the centenary of the 1912 sinking of the most famous passenger liner in history. But this is no me too' offer: this is the third edition of an already definitive work, newly published with more than 100 new photographs, significant additional text and the most accurate passenger list yet published.If there is one Titanic volume to have, this is it. It's a chunky read and the story and photos are wonderful. We particularly enjoyed the chapter relating to the British investigation that followed the tragedy a and it is all here in glorious detail.There will be many programmes this year on Titanic but for the great-grandmother of the days of passenger liners a this is the volume to cherish. "Old Glory- December 15, 2011"" An update of the classic reference book first published in 1986, this new edition includes color photographs of the wreck and some pieces salvaged from it, an explanation of the complex legal wrangling over salvage rights, a chapter entitled ""Titanic," Today and Tomorrow" with a time line of "Titanic"-related events since the second edition was published in 1997, and new appendixes. Eaton and Haas also write of their own voyage to the wreck site, an experience of which most "Titanic" authors cannot boast. The first edition's subtitle was A Chronicle in Words and Pictures and, indeed, the pictures have always been a major strength of the work, showing more images of people and places related to the ship than any other book. VERDICT: A must-have for anyone interested in "Titanic"; worth updating to this new edition. - "Library Journal, March 5, 2012" As we approach the centenary of this dreadful tragedy, a third edition of "Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy" by the above authors has been published. Their work has long been regarded as one of the most detailed and authoritative books on the loss of White Star's Titanic. This is a beautifully produced book, lavishly illustrated, and fully updated to include dives to the wreck, dramatic courtroom conflicts and highly evocative new photographs. This would be an excellent addition to any maritime library. Highly recommended. "Sea Breezes" From collectibles to gravestones, concert programmes to views of other ships on the North Atlantic that night, this is the one publication that really does go closest to claiming to have it all. And now one imitates Eaton and Haas and ceases to write to length a the cognoscenti know the worth of T&T already, and it is weighed in the troy ounce. A triumph indeed in this expanded third edition. If ever shipwrecked, yet allowed by ministering angels of grace to save a single volume for the remaining years marooned upon a desert island, the discerning Titaniac could hardly do better than to ask for this one. "Encyclopedia Titanica- December 8, 2011"" Jack Eaton and Charlie Haas are among the most admired and affectionately regarded of all those who put themselves forward to publicly discourse about the "RMS Titanic" and all the storied history that sailed with her.At the forefront of things "Titanic" for 25 years, these men have remarkably never been surpassed as sheer chroniclers and discoverers. From when they debuted on rendering documentary substance to the ship in 1986 - the first edition of "Triumph and Tragedy" was published in November that year - they have ever since scrupulously presented the record and then kept it either up to date or freshly informed, much of the time through their own research trips.There were plenty before who were prepared to play fast and loose with the facts (some who also published in 1986, and of course since), but the monumental slab that is this work has always stood as the finest incorporation of what actually happened, from first to last.Keeping it current is a feat in itself. The first edition went into reprint and was subsequently replaced by a second edition in 1994 that featured the authors' own colour wreck photos. Several imprints of that edition followed, and now the third has taken its place.Re-badged under Haynes Publishing, having flown the flag of the subsidiary Patrick Stephens Ltd on previous launch, this version is sixty pages longer than the already-hefty second edition and contains 100 additional photographs.While the back page blurb claims 'significant additional text, ' one of the strengths of T&T, as one tends to call it - indeed a very great strength - is that the prose seems to ghost its way between the photographs in the most unassuming manner. The text is there if you want it; nobody is shouting at you; and certainly no agenda is being imposed.The narrative, one detects, is deliberately spare, devoid of editorialising and confined to meticulously cataloguing detail - names, places, dates, incidents. The photographs on the same page are very freq

About the Author:

Born, raised and educated at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, John P. Eaton worked for more than 35 years in a large, busy hospital emergency room in New York City. He now lives 55 miles north but a world away from New York, in a small, quiet village on the Hudson River. He first encountered Titanic in a painting that illustrated a story in Esquire magazine. Why did the big ship sink? he wondered. It took 52 years for someone to answer that question to his satisfaction. Meanwhile, in libraries and archives in cities on three continents, he has conducted a love affair with the world s most famous ship. The advent of the Internet has expanded his search even further, supplying, literally, an archive without walls. In 1973, a fortuitous meeting in the New York Public Library s main catalogue room (then unknown to one another, both simultaneously reached for the same card catalogue drawer marked Titan-Titap ) with Charles Haas has since resulted in their completion of five full-length books and countless articles and lectures, all relating to Titanic. The ship itself; its people builders, passengers and assessors; its place in history: all contribute to an ongoing fascination with a subject whose many facets and dimensions never cease to fascinate. Mr. Eaton s specific interests within the subject include the more than 200 ships related to the disaster; and a study of night signals, whose usefulness to navigation ceased on the morning of April 15, 1912. Mr. Eaton is a co-founder of the Titanic International Society. He has dived to the wreck. He has appeared more often than not with Mr. Haas on many radio and television programs; together they have served as advisers to many significant projects and exhibits. Who would have thought that a chance encounter with a magazine illustration could lead to a life of research, study and adventure? Charles A. Haas, born in 1947, credits his Titanic interest to his grandfather, who introduced him to ocean liners through his office windows overlooking New York Harbor, and lent him the bestseller A Night to Remember. Charlie did his first Titanic research in high school; his researching continues to the present day. Titanic's story never ends, he says. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rider University and a Master of Arts degree from William Paterson University, and enjoyed a distinguished 36-year career teaching English and journalism at Randolph High School in New Jersey before his 2005 retirement. In 1986, with writing partner John P. Eaton, he wrote the critically acclaimed Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy, whose previously unpublished details rewrote key parts of Titanic s story, followed by Titanic: Destination Disaster, Falling Star: Misadventures of White Star Line Ships, and Titanic: A Journey Through Time. In 1993, Charlie became the world s first teacher and historian to dive to Titanic s wreck aboard the submersible Nautile. His second dive in 1996 inspired the Discovery Channel program, Titanic: Untold Stories, and he was present in 1998 as the 22-ton Big Piece, the largest Titanic artifact, was recovered. Since 2006, Haas has served as president of the New Jersey-based Titanic International Society. He has lectured frequently on both sides of the Atlantic, been interviewed for countless radio and television programs, and served as consultant to Titanic-related projects on three continents. In his spare time, Charlie enjoys reading, digging through online newspaper archives, tutoring young people, working at his church's food pantry, and visiting with family and friends. He lives in northern New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857330241
• ISBN 13: 9780857330246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416