Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/wREhf2 Desperate Hours The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria By: Richard Goldstein Publisher: Wiley (Turner Publishing) Print ISBN: 9780471423522, 0471423521 eText ISBN: 9780470238417, 0470238410 Edition: 1st Pages: 304 Copyright year: 2001 Format: EPUB Available from $ 19.99 USD SKU 9780470238417 A stupendous feat of reportage. -Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desperate Hours Goldstein's book is packed with detail. . . . This description of the Doria's sinking is especially moving. -The New York Times A stupendous feat of reportage. Goldstein has virtually put us into lifeboats and sent us hurtling into the North Atlantic on the night of July 25, 1956. -Ron Powers, cowriter, Flags of Our Fathers, and author of Dangerous Water and Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore On an extraordinary summer's night in 1956, in a fog off Nantucket, the world-renowned ocean liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish liner Stockholm and, eleven hours later, tragically sank. But in that brief time the Doria became, after the Titanic, the most storied vessel of the century, as nearly 1,700 people were saved in an unforgettable rescue punctuated by countless acts of heroism amid confusion, terror, and even cowardice. In the tradition of Walter Lord's A Night To Remember, Desperate Hours re-creates the ill-fated voyage, from the passengers' parting waves at Genoa, to their last evening highball in the Doria's lavish lounge, to the unbelievable realization that catastrophe was imminent. Richard Goldstein draws from dozens of interviews, court documents, memoirs, and reports that relate never-before-told stories. He also presents technical findings that shed light on the blame for the disaster. The result is a definitive history of a fateful day, a legendary liner, and a deadly shipwreck now considered by scuba divers to be the Mount Everest of the deep.
