"One of the most exciting books of this or any year." The New York Times

By Walter Lord. Published by Henry Holt And Company, New York, 1955. Hardcover with dust jacket, 209 pages, index, with double inside cover pages in the front and the back of the book showing illustrations of the Boat Deck And Tank (Bottom Deck) of the RMS Titanic. Excellent condition. Rare and very desirable 1955 edition!

There is a very nice presentation written in ink on the second blank page at the front of the book as follows:

Christmas 2001

Dear Bob,

Your Dad and I thought you would love this book.

I've heard it was said, "not even God could sink this ship."

What a mistake to question the awesome power of our creator.

Always be thankful that He loved you enough to send His only begotten Son for your salvation and eternal life when you believe in Him and trust Him.

You are loved,
Dad and Rita

Death On The High Sea

She was the world's biggest-ever ship. A luxurious miracle of twentieth-century technology, the Titanic was equipped with the most ingenious safety devices of the time. Yet on a moonlight night in 1912, the "unsinkable" Titanic raced across the glassy Atlantic on her maiden voyage, with only 20 lifeboats for 2,207 passengers.

A Night to Remember is the gut-wrenching, minute-by-minute account of her fatal collision with an iceberg and how the resulting tragedy brought out the best and the worst in human nature. Some gave their lives for others, some fought like animals for survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in lifeboats; gentleman went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped below decks, sought help in vain.

From the first distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, here is the legendary disaster relived by the few who survived and can never forget the many who did not.