How to Survive the Titanic

Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS <em>Titanic</em> looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ship's owner J. Bruce Ismay. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad's classic novel <em>Lord Jim</em> Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism memory and identity survival and guilt--questions that revolve around Ismay's loss of honor and identity as his monolithic venture--a ship called The Last Word in Luxury and The Unsinkable--was swallowed by the sea and subsumed in infamy forever.<br />