{"product_id":"9781408159187","title":"Titanic on Trial","description":"On 15 April 2012, it will be 100 years since the Titanic\u003cbr\u003esank. Since that fateful night, stories about the sinking have become\u003cbr\u003elegendary - how the band played to\u003cbr\u003ethe end, how lifeboats were lowered half-empty - but amongst the films,\u003cbr\u003enovels and academic arguments, only those who were there can\u003cbr\u003eseparate truth from fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the sinking, inquiries into the loss of 1,517 lives (out of\u003cbr\u003e2,223 aboard) were held in both the UK and US. The proceedings produced\u003cbr\u003e1,000 pages of transcripts. Some of the testimonies were inevitably less than impartial, but as a whole the\u003cbr\u003etranscripts represent the most thorough and complete account of the\u003cbr\u003esinking, told in the voices of those who were there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time these transcripts have been specially edited and arranged chronologically, so that they tell the story of\u003cbr\u003ethe Titanic's sinking as a narrative, rather than a list of\u003cbr\u003equestions and answers in a courtroom. The\u003cbr\u003ewitnesses are transformed into characters in a much bigger\u003cbr\u003estory, and the events are described from different perspectives of people in\u003cbr\u003eevery part of the ship, from a stoker in the boiler room escaping his\u003cbr\u003esection before the watertight doors sealed behind him, to first class\u003cbr\u003epassengers trying to buy their way onto lifeboats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCapturing the disbelief, the chaos and the terror of the disaster, this\u003cbr\u003eunique book brings to life the tragedy through the voices of those who\u003cbr\u003esurvived it.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126089826544,"sku":"9781408159187","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408159187_p0.jpg?v=1763720478","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408159187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}