101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic But Didn't

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Titanic expert Tim Maltin, whose magnum opus on the history of the doomed liner will be published in 2012, here reveals in short, snappy and fascinating answers why the 'truths' people are told about the Titanic and the night she sank are mostly untrue. There weren't enough lifeboats. Owner Ismay ordered the ship to go faster because he was trying to break a record. The band played Nearer My God to Thee as she sank. Are these stories true or false? Here, Martin reveals all. Readers will never think in the same way about the Titanic again!