"A Night to Remember": Book Review

Paper Summary:

This paper favorably reviews Walter Lord's 1955 non-fiction work, "A Night to Remember", explaining that it is a heart-rendering account of the Titanic's deadly collision with an iceberg. The paper further relates that the book is a compilation of survivors' recollections of the disaster and that the major theme of the book is the good and evil of human nature that is revealed in life threatening situations. The paper concludes that Lord's book is a critical expose of one of the most tragic events in the history of travel on the seas.

From the Paper:

"Walter Lord gives his reader an authentic sense of what it was like to be a passenger onboard the boat that dreadful night. He describes the night of the crash as being calm, clear, and bitterly cold. He details the passengers' formal attire to help demonstrate just how shocking and unexpected the sinking was. He depicts their dress as an odd mixture of bathrobes, fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, and tuxedos to emphasize the bitter irony of the sinking."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember. New York: Bantam Books. 1955

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