Book Reviews

THIS gripping book about history’s most famous maritime disaster focuses mainly on the ship’s passengers and officers, and less on the tragedy.

Historian and biographer Richard Davenport-Hines’s approach is so effective that at the end, one feels distress over the premature deaths of some of the people one has got to know.

Titanic sank with the loss of 1,517 lives on its maiden voyage in April 1912, after hitting an iceberg. Only 711 people were saved.