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How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

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Bloomsbury

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Part Number: HIS5118

Edition: 2012

Printed and corrected to: No

ISBN: 9781408828151

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Author(s): Frances Wilson

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Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, ‘The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The first victim of a press hate campaign, his reputation never recovered and while other survivors were piecing together their accounts, Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again.