Titanic: The Last Night

Dominic Haynes

• 28 december 2025
• 9791223998472

Samenvatting:

The world’s greatest ship was never more than a fragile illusion.
What happens when the pinnacle of Gilded Age engineering meets the cold math of a frozen abyss? Can the rigid social codes of an era survive a two-mile plunge into the dark?
In Titanic: The Last Night, Dominic Haynes strips away a century of myth to deliver a visceral, minute-by-minute account of the disaster. Moving from the mahogany-lined First Class suites to the flooded stokeholds, Haynes weaves the perspectives of survivors like Charles Lightoller and Violet Jessop into a cinematic tapestry of ruin and resilience.
Inside, you will witness:

• The haunting silence of a "sea of glass" before the fatal shudder.
• The desperate tapping of the Marconi keys screaming into the void.
• The surreal waltz of the band as the Grand Staircase drowns.
• The structural agony of a 46,000-ton leviathan snapping in the dark.

You may know how it ends, but you have never felt the spray or heard the rending steel like this. This is the definitive, character-driven autopsy of a world's end.
Step onto the deck and endure the final night.