Procure The Truth About The Titanic Chronicled By Archibald Gracie Represented In Print

worked quickly to try and get at the truth, He gathered much information that is still used today, He died onlymonths after the Titanic sank, He'd helped many into the lifeboats, then jumped ship after it began sinking and made it an overturned boat, where he spent the early hours waiting for rescue.
I would call him a hero, But the book is dry and there are many more exciting books to read about the Titanic.
I read the Harper Perennial Classics ebook edition of Colonel Gracie's THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TITANIC:
This is the most impacting account I have read about the sinking of the Titanic.
Colonel Gracie was a wonderful writer prior to the tragedy and his skill is evidenced within these pages.
His eyewitness experience shines with his heart and faith, God did spare him from an icy death in the Atlantic, Colonel Gracie did not take it for granted and did all he could to faithfully tell the story of the real peoplethe individuals who lived and died.
My heart aches for his death eight months later, but he did more in those months than many do in a lifetime.
One has to read this understanding the world ofis a world away from now harrowing but enlightening.
The first half was interesting because it was Col, Gracie's personal survival story. The second half was dull, It was a description of each lifeboat and who was in it and the stories from the inquiries.
I put off writing my thoughts on this for a long time, Reason being that I felt kind of sour after reading Gracie's account and I wanted to see if that sourness settled over time.
It didn't, but I'll explain,

You can really separate this publication into two parts, The first part of the text is Gracie's account of the first and last crossing of the Titanic.
The second part is essentially his compiled research of other firsthand accounts, as well as details on both the American and English inquiries following the wreck.


The second part was enjoyable and thoroughly researched, albeit told a bit dryly, Gracie generally kept himself out of this part and gave many people a voice, By people, I mean firstclass people, but that's an entirely different issue that I'm not going to get into right now.


The first part, Gracie's personal account, was, . . troubling. I could even say that it's a bit historically damaging, If I could summarise what I mean in one sentence, it's that Gracie seems to confuse "didn't see it happen" with "didn't happen".
Who but an omnipresent narrator could factually state that every staffer on the boat was completely in control of their emotions and not one showed any sort of panic at all Not only is this completely unbelievable but I'm not sure how one man on a boat as massive as the Titanic could, without a doubt, claim this to be true.
He also said that every man on the boat was completely calm and not one did anything to try to secure their lives until all the women and children were safe.
Anyone familiar with other shipwrecks that happened during the earlythcentury would agree that this sounds outrageously romanticised.
I'm sure the Titanic was an outlier and the men on board were uncharacteristically chivalric compared to other shipwrecks the percentage of women and children saved support this.
But every single man was completely calm Hyperbolic statements really don't belong in firsthand accounts and generalizations should be stated as such.
I'm not even going to touch on the reliability of Gracie that says that his wife telepathically knew that her husband was in danger while she was lying in bed at home.
Thank you, but no.

Another example of Gracie's "if I didn't see it, it didn't happen" obsession is his dismissal of other firsthand accounts that contradict his own.
The most prominent example being Jack Thayer's, I'm not sure if this is because Jack was only a teenager, but that's meaningless, It's not like Jack had a completely fullfrontal, unobstructed view from the water or anything, . .

But Gracie didn't see it happen, So it didn't happen.

I don't mean for any of this to sound unappreciative of a man who made the effort to record his account of an extremely significant moment in history.
That being said, I highly recommend readers who enjoyed Gracie's account to read further works, both primary and secondary, about the event to develop a fuller understanding of what exactly happened that night.
This is a haunting tale of Gracie's survival the night the Titanic sunk, It is quite a read, however it is certainly written in the 'tongue' of the earlyth century.
It is interesting to hear the point of view of someone who went through so much the night the Titanic sunk and to see what was happening around him.
It does have its flaws though, and while it must be remembered that was the way of the times it is still a bit much to stomach at times.
Gracie was a first class passenger therefore he spoke almost exclusively of those in first class, When he spoke of anyone from steerage it was very clear he thought of them almost as another species.
He was quite degrading of them, the way they dressed and

the way they spoke, Of course we knew many first class passengers on that boat, or on any boat would feel the third class passengers were not worth their time and would feel as though they were much better than anyone in the classes below them, it was still a little infuriating to read that arrogance.
Nevertheless, it's a good book to read to get a truthful look at that night,
In piena frenesia cinematografica per mano di James Cameron, affittai in biblioteca un'edizione precedente di questo libro.

Non mi fu però possibile toccarlo granchè, il libro era vecchio, La considerai un'operazione ad alto rischio e rinviai,
Fino ad ora.
Facendo bene.
Fa storia questo libro Neanche un po', E' assai poco attendibile, vale anche per l'inchiesta ufficiale, riportata in modo ridondante,
Fu più accurato James Cameron col film prima nonostante la pessima mossa d'inventarsi il suicidio del primo ufficiale Murdoch, offendendo i familiari inevitabilmente.

Ancor più attendibili poi sono i suoi documentari sul medesimo tema per la vena televisiva del National Geographic.


Allora perché il libro del colonnello Perché è la finestra umana di un'epoca, Epoca molto pesante: militarista, classista, razzista, ipocrita,
Lontana
Ahinoi tutti, no,

La sola testimonianza ancora al presente, disponibile in italiano,
Edizione che auspico venga meglio curata, sembra frettolosa,
Troppi refusi e per il costo, merita anche una migliore copertina, .