Desperate Hours : The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria

by Goldstein, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780471389347
• ISBN10: 047138934X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-15
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In the tradition of Walter Lords A Night to Remember, a dramatic moment-by-moment account of the greatest peacetime sea rescue in historyAdvance Praise for Desperate Hours"A stupendous feat of reportage. Goldstein has virtually put us into lifeboats and sent us hurtling into the North Atlantic on the night of July 25, 1956." Ron Powers, cowriter, Flags of Our Fathers, and author of Dangerous Water and Tom and Huck Dont Live Here Anymore"Riveting. A vivid reconstruction of the chain of small events leading to a disaster and its impact on a rich cast of characters from a vanished era." Neil Hanson, author of The Custom of the Sea

Author Biography

RICHARD GOLDSTEIN is an editor and writer for the New York Times, where he has worked since 1980. He is the author of America at D-Day and Mine Eyes Have Seen: A First-Person History of the Events That Shaped America, which was an alternate selection of the Literary Guild. He lives in White Plains, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART I: THE VOYAGE

1. ""Brace Yourself"".

2. ""A Floating Art Gallery"".

3. ""Take the Doria, You'll Never Forget It"".

4. ""A Picture of Scandinavian Efficiency"".

5. ""The Times Square of the Atlantic"".

6. ""Each Shall Alter Her Course to Starboard"".

PART II: THE COLLISION.

7. ""Why Doesn't He Whistle?""

8. ""I Think We Hit an Iceberg"".

9. ""Don't Worry, There's Nothing Wrong"".

10. ""Need Immediate Assistance"".

PART III: THE RESCUE.

11. ""This Is No Drill"".

12. ""How Many Lifeboats?""

13. ""We Are Bending Too Much"".

14. ""Let's Pray to St. Ann"".

15. ""We Won't Leave You"".

16. ""Lady, You're Lucky to Be Alive"".

17. ""Light Up Everything, Quickly"".

18. ""You Have to Have Courage"".

19. ""Get Your Cameras"".

20. ""Bulletin . . . Bulletin . . . Bulletin"".

21. ""You May Go, I'm Staying"".

22. ""Seaworthiness Nil"".

23. ""That Thing's Going Down in Five Minutes"".

24. ""It Is Incomprehensible"".

25. ""How Good God Is to Me"".

26. ""Oh, What a Climax"".

27. ""It's My Baby"".

28. ""I Lost My Love for Italians"".

29. ""This Is a Jumbled Story"".

PART IV: THE QUESTIONS.

30. ""The Passengers Were Highly Excitable"".

31. ""It Could Have Been a Patch of Fog"".

32. ""The Stability of the Ship Was Low"".

33. ""I Could Have Changed Course"".

PART V: THE MEMORIES.

34. ""Why Did I Get Spared?""

35. ""The Poor Man Was Destroyed"".

PART VI: THE SHIPWRECK.

36. ""It's Got the Mystique"".

Appendix.

Sources.

Index.