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1. Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner

   John Maxtone-Graham

   “Maxtone-Graham’s take on the Titanic will be catnip to the ship’s dedicated buffs.”—Publishers WeeklyMore

2. Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

   Steven Biel

   Updated Edition

   “Brimming over with wit and insight. . . . Fresh and fascinating.”—Dan RatherMore

3. France/Norway: France's Last Liner/Norway's First Mega Cruise Ship

   John Maxtone-Graham

   The dean of ocean-liner historians brings to life one of the last transatlantic liners: the legendary France, later renamed Norway.More

4. Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner

   John Maxtone-Graham

   A magnificent tribute to the illustrious and ill-fated steamship.More

5. The Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance

   Philip Dawson

   A spectacularly illustrated account of the ocean liner's place in transportation and social history.More

6. Disaster at Sea: Shipwrecks, Storms, and Collisions on the Atlantic

   William H. Flayhart

   "Flayhart delivers a gripping chronicle of mishap and mayhem . . . filled with danger and heroism and rich with detail."—Sea PowerMore

7. Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

   Steven Biel

   An immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon.More

8. Lusitania: Saga and Myth

   David Ramsay

   An objective and enthralling account of the sinking of the Lusitania, which unravels many of the myths and, for the first time, explains the true significance of that terrible disaster.More

9. Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809-1922

   James Tertius de Kay

   "History that reads like a historical novel."—New York Times Book Review. "Thoroughly delightful and informative."— Atlantic MonthlyMore

10. QE2: The Cunard Line Flagship, Queen Elizabeth II

    Ronald W. Warwick

    She is 963 feet long, weighs over 67,000 tons, has three swimming pools, 22 elevators, and a crew of 900. She can move through the water at over 35 miles per hour and is the last of the great transatlantic liners. Approaching her 30th birthday, she is a legend, the sole survivor of a bygone era, but she is thriving.More

11. Titanica: The Disaster of the Century in Poetry, Song, and Prose

    Steven Biel

    In the ninety years since the Titanic sank, countless sermons and editorials, poems, songs and ads, socialists and chauvinists, Christians, reformers, anarchists, and pitchmen have drawn on the power of the century's worst disaster to move their audience.More

12. The Titanic Disaster: As Reported in the British National Press, April-July 1912

    Dave Bryceson

    The sinking of the Titanic, as the dramatic story unfolded in the British press.More

13. Titanic: Destination Disaster

    John P. Eaton, Charles A. Haas

    Ninety years after the most famous sinking of all time, two of the world's foremost authorities on the Titanic present this popular account of the sea's best-known disaster.More

14. Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy

    John P. Eaton, Charles A. Haas

    First published in 1986, revised and expanded in 1995, this book has been called "the definitive history" of the Titanic.More

15. The End of an Era: The Last of the Great Lake Steamboats

    David Plowden

    From freighters in motion and intricate machinery in the engine room, to the men who operate and maintain the vessels, these photographs represent a testament to the vanishing era of steam.More