Détails du livre
Format
Relié
Pages
408
Langue
Anglais
Publié
Dec 1, 1999
Éditeur
Charnwood
ISBN-10
0708991262
ISBN-13
9780708991268
Description
'I did not like big ships...I was secrelty afraid' admits Violet Jessop in this unique eyewitness account of the most written about disaster of the twentieth century. Violet was a stewardess for first-class passengers on the TITANIC when it sank in April 1912. While in the lifeboat someone threw her a 'forgotten baby', and she watched fascinated as the ship went down. Four years later, she was a wartime nurse aboard the BRITANNIC, when it stuck a mine and sank. These memoirs give a unique glimpse of the life below decks, telling of philandering shipmates, exotic ports, unrequited love and tragic deaths.