Andrew Norman

Gebundenes Buch

Titanic: A Tragic Tale of Hubris and Nemesis

Inside the Mind of Captain Smith

Beschreibung

When RMS Titanic was launched on 31 May 1911 at the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff, she was the largest ship afloat and the most luxurious ocean liner in the world. Yet on the night of 14-15 April 1912, on her maiden voyage, she sank as a result of a collision with an iceberg.

Autor

Andrew Norman was born in Newbury, Berkshire, UK in 1943. Having been educated at Thornhill High School, Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Midsomer Norton Grammar School, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he qualified in medicine at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He has two children Bridget and Thomas, by his first wife. From 1972-83, Andrew worked as a general practitioner in Poole, Dorset, before a spinal injury cut short his medical career. He is now an established writer whose published works include biographies of Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Thomas Hardy, T.E. Lawrence, Adolf Hitler, Agatha Christie, Enid Blyton, Beatrix Potter, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Mugabe. Andrew married his second wife Rachel, in 2005.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781036118723
• ISBN-10: 103611872X
• Artikelnr.: 74441056