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The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost Pub. Date: 5/20/2009 Publisher: Casemate Publishers

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Overview

After every disaster, someone has something to hide . . .

A few minutes before midnight on April 14, 1912, the "unsinkable" RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage to New York, struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. While the world has remained fascinated by the tragedy, the most amazing drama of those fateful hours was not played out aboard the doomed liner. It took place on the decks of two other ships, one fifty-eight miles distant from the sinking Titanic, the other barely ten miles away. The masters of the steamships Carpathia and Californian, Captain Arthur Rostron and Captain Stanley Lord, were informed within minutes of each other that their vessels had picked up the distress signals of a sinking ship. Their actions in the hours and days that followed would become the stuff of legend, as one would choose to take his ship into dangerous waters to answer the call for help, while the other would decide that the hazard to himself and his command was too great to risk responding.

After years of research, Daniel Allen Butler now tells this incredible story, moving from ship to ship on the icy waters of the North Atlantic—in real-time—to recount how hundreds of people could have been rescued, but in the end only a few outside of the meager lifeboats were saved. He then looks alike at the U.S. Senate Investigation in Washington, and ultimately the British Board of Trade Inquiry in London, where the actions of each captain are probed, questioned, and judged, until the truth of what actually happened aboard the Titanic, the Carpathia and the Californian is revealed.

Daniel Allen Butler, a maritime and military historian, is the bestselling author of "Unsinkable": The Full Story of RMS Titanic, Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War, and The First Jihad: The Battle for Khartoum and the Dawn of Militant Islam. He is an internationally recognized authority on maritime subjects and a popular guest-speaker for several cruise lines. Butler lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

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Ships Monthly

After the Titanic sank, the captain of Carpathia responded immediately to the sinking liner's calls for help, but the captain of the California, which was also close to the sinking, decided it was too risky to respond...examines the reasons behind this decision and looks at the American and British inquiries into the sinking...

The Book Bag (UK)

...very readable and particularly accessible to the general reader, with additional information for the specialist researcher in the extensive Sources and Bibliography... ...Butler's research has obviously been extensive and his airing of the views of a wide cross-section of the people involved gives the book a freshness which could easily have been lost.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935149859
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Publication date: 3/19/2011
Pages: 264
Sales rank: 486,516
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Prologue " For Those in Peril on the Sea …" vii

Chapter 1 The Cruelest Ocean 3

Chapter 2 The Carpathia and Arthur Rostron 19

Chapter 3 The Californian and Stanley Lord 37

Chapter 4 S O S-Titanic 57

Chapter 5 By the Rockets' White Glare 83

Chapter 6 Rescue at Dawn 103

Chapter 7 New York and Boston 133

Chapter 8 The American Investigation 147

Chapter 9 The British Inquiry 165

Chapter 10 The Undelivered Verdict 191

Epilogue Flotsam and Jetsam 207

Appendices

I The Resolution Authorizing the Senate Investigation into the Loss of the RMS Titanic 223

II The Order for the Board of Trade Inquiry and the Questions to be Investigated 225

III Extract from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry Report 231

Author's Note 239

Sources and Bibliography 245

Index 249

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NikiGunn

Posted June 30, 2011

Excellent, well-written analysis

I liked that this book was not just another rehash of the sinking of the Titanic. In fact, the Titanic was barely mentioned and that's incredibly refreshing. The focus is the comparison and contrast between Captains Rostron and Lord, men who had incredibly different reactions. Rostron took decisive action and did all he could. Lord did nothing. This easily readable book details the actions on each ship and how they responded at the inquries. Butler offers his analysis of what might have happened if Lord reacted the way Rostron did and a psychological conclusion of his inaction. Interesting and insightful without being judgemental.

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