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|author=Frances Wilson
|reviewer=Peter Magee
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|pages=352
|publisher=Bloomsbury
|date=August 2011
|isbn=978-1408809228
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'''Winner: the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, at the Authors' Awards 2012'''
As I read ''How to Survive the Titanic'' I was conscious that we're only a matter of months away from the centenary of the sinking – and a slew of media to mark the occasion. Given that the subject has been mined extensively over the years it will be interesting to see whether there's anything new to be said about the tragedy. It's a subject which has always fascinated me – and it was with a sense of anticipation that I opened the book.
For more about the Titanic we can recommend [[Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt]].
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|name=Derrrick J Ismay
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|comment= J.Bruce Ismay was a very senitive and private person and it is high time that books such as this and other publications, stopped suggesting that he was a coward, and even on some occasions are still, in these enlightened times, prepared to make scurrilous untrue remarks about him.
The Titanic had more lifeboats on board than the Regulations demanded. If he had not entered the collapsible lifeboat with Mr Carter, which was being lowered, and was not full to capacity, with no other passengers in sight. This would simply have added one more name to the casualty list.
This book has many factual errors and it also states that it was company policy to stop the crew's pay at the time the ship went down . Does the author realise that this was British Maritime Practice to stop crew's pay as soon as they had no ship to serve on. This was the same for most, if not all, British Merchant ships , even if they had been torpedoed, right up to the second world war.
Both the British and American enquiries exonerated Mr Ismay of any wrongdoing , and perhaps, if he was guilty of anything it would be of having too much confidence in the invincibility of the vessel.
And now in this anniversary year, of this tragic accident, this persecution and using him as a scapegoat should stop.
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