On the Decks of the Titanic, A Night to Remember, Written by Walter Lord

A Night to Remember is a book written by Walter Lord. This book is based on the tragic night of April 14, 1912. The night the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Walter Lord was only ten years old when he first had an interest in what happened the night the Titanic sank (Holt, Rinehart and Winston). He thought how exciting it would be to investigate all that went on that night. At the age of ten he talked his parents into taking him on the

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