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CELEBRATING WORLD BOOK DAY TODAY- TITANIC; SUPERSTARS AND SCAPEGOATS.. . A book to match the ship whose demise it articulates with such dre

SCHARNHORST...

A steel grey Tiger Shark, slicing through the icy chop of the North Sea at flank speed. Fully intent on severing the vital supply arteries that, alone, kept Great Britain alive and fighting in the darkest days of World War Two.

Nine eleven inch guns, housed in triple turrets faced with armour plating a full, fourteen inches thick. They wrought deadly work.

Her victims included an aircraft carrier, an armed merchant cruiser, two destroyers, and twenty-two British merchant ships. But she was always on borrowed time.

In February 1942, she led the desperate, daytime breakout from Brest that came to be known as the Channel Dash. Scharnhorst, with her sister ship, Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen 'succeeded where the Spanish Armada failed' in a subsequent lead page editorial in The Times.

Ultimately, the Scharnhorst died as violently as she lived, lashing out desperately at a relentless steel ring of thirteen British and Norwegian warships that finally brought her to bay.

Reduced to a slowly sinking pile of blazing, bloody scrap, she and the great bulk of her brave, fallen crew now lie forever entombed beneath a thousand feet of freezing Arctic sea water, some ninety-three miles away from the North Cape of Norway...

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TITANIC: SUPERSTARS AND SCAPEGOATS BOOK REVIEW...

'This book was amazing!!! Anthony Nicholas did a fabulous job, and once again, those who perished on the Titanic are brought to life through the pages of a book.

We learn about the crew, and their heroic efforts to save as many as possible, mistakes that were made, and the band that played as the ship slipped beneath the waves. It is in many ways a profound read that is going to take readers back in time, with a fascinating look at those on board, rather than the sinking of the vessel itself.

Highly recommend this book!'

Reviewer: Rebecca Hill

Source: NetGalley

Reviewer's rating: Five Stars

TITANIC: SUPERSTARS AND SCAPEGOATS. A book by Anthony Nicholas

www.amazon.com

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

208 pages. Seventeen chapters. Eight sides of black and white illustrations.

Global availability across e-book, hardback and kindle formats.

On sale from branches of Barnes and Noble, Wal- mart, Waterstones, and W.H. Smith.

Also available from Titanic Belfast, the Maritime Museum of The Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and via the Titanic Historical Society of Indian Orchard, Massachussetts.

Seventeen Five Star ratings across Amazon and Goodreads.

REVIEW FOR MY TITANIC BOOK...

'The author's style is engrossing and his descriptions can sometimes verge on the comedic, which helped make this book very enjoyable, easy to read and exceptionally informative.

Key Figures Aboard RMS Titanic is an absolute must read for anyone who has an interest in this modern day Flying Dutchman.

In my view if you want to read any book about Titanic this should be it.'

Official rating: Five Stars

Reviewer: Kirkz

Source: www.arrse.co.uk

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CHANGING TACK: ADVERTISING THE 'BIG U'... 'Sail with the Unrushables'... This 1960's American advertising poster was a complete about face

QUEEN ELIZABETH FIRST CLASS LUNCHEON MENU, NOVEMBER 1959... This First Class lunch menu from Cunard's Queen Elizabeth provides as much food

REPROVISIONING ON LUXURY LINER ROW... On every Manhattan arrival, every single liner afloat underwent what seemed like a bewildering ordeal

THE COLLISION... Onrushing steel glances against implacable, half submerged ice. The kinetic energy of forty six thousand tons, forging for

THE NEWS BREAKS... The New York Times breaks the news of the disaster in dramatic style. But what is really interesting here are the two na

TITANIC: THE GRAND STAIRCASE...

'We leave the deck and pass through one of the doors which admit us to the interior of the vessel and, as if by magic, we at once lose feeling that we are on board a ship, and instead seem to be entering the hall of some great house on shore. Dignified and simple oak panelling covers the walls, enriched in a few places by a bit of elaborate carved work, reminiscent of the days when Grinling Gibbons collaborated with his great contemporary, Wren.

In the middle of the hall rises a gracefully curving staircase, its balustrade supported by light scrollworks of iron, with occasional touches of bronze, in the form of flowers and foliage. Above all a great dome of iron and glass throws a flood of light down the stairway, and on the landing beneath it a great carved panel gives its note of richness to the otherwise plain and massive construction of the wall. The panel contains a clock, on either side of which is a female figure, the whole symbolising Honour and Glory crowning Time. Looking over the balustrade, we see the stairs descending to many floors below, and on turning aside we find we may be spared the labours of mounting or descending by entering one of the smoothly gliding elevators which bear us quickly to any of the numerous floors of the ship we may wish to visit.

The staircase is one of the principal features of the ship, and will be greatly admired as being, no doubt, the finest piece of workmanship of its kind afloat.'

Text from White Star Line promotional brochure for S.S. Olympic and Titanic.

Modelling of the Grand Staircase is the work of Matthew LeWinkeler.

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