ASIN: B007YUP13K
Publisher: Tales End Press
Pages: 319
This ebook edition features: • 30 photographs and illustrations from the first edition • Active table of contents and reflowable text • Part of the Titanic Landmark Series – republishing eyewitness accounts of the TitanicThis is one of the first and most famous books published after the sinking of the Titanic, and contains much material from contemporary newspaper accounts. It was written by Logan Howard-Smith (under the pen name of Logan Marshall), an editor who specialized in the rapid publication of books about current events. For this book, his crowning achievement, the initial print run was for no fewer than 110,000 copies. The publisher achieved this by running 11 presses simultaneously, and the books were then sold door-to-door across America for a dollar apiece. Although Marshall's own description of the sinking is melodramatic and sensationalistic, the many verbatim inte ...
