The Midnight Watch A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian
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Erscheinungsdatum
05.04.2016
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St. Martin's PressSeitenzahl
338 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9781466893085
"A fascinating novel. David Dyer has captured all the drama and emotion of the
Titanic disaster from an intriguing new perspective." -Hazel Gaynor,
New York Times-bestselling author
As the
Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS
Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the
Titanic fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, the
Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead.
The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS
Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction.
Told not only from the perspective of the SS
Californian crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found. David Dyer's
The Midnight Watch is a powerful and dramatic debut novel-the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.
"[An] engrossing new novel... thoroughly faithful to the facts." -
The New York Times Book Review
Titanic disaster from an intriguing new perspective." -Hazel Gaynor,
New York Times-bestselling author
As the
Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS
Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the
Titanic fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, the
Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead.
The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS
Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction.
Told not only from the perspective of the SS
Californian crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found. David Dyer's
The Midnight Watch is a powerful and dramatic debut novel-the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.
"[An] engrossing new novel... thoroughly faithful to the facts." -
The New York Times Book Review
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