The Midnight Watch : A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian (Paperback)

from john257hopper

This novel focuses on the Californian, the ship which almost certainly saw and was seen by the Titanic during her last desperate hours, but which did not go to her aid despite the Titanic launching eight white distress rockets. The novel focuses chiefly on the relationship between Captain Lord an...

from adpaton

The Midnight Watch is an astoundingly good novel on the sinking of the Titanic, no doubt the most fictionalised ship of all time. Forget the romances, murders, mysteries and domestic dramas usually spun around that voyage: this book is based on real events. The SS Californian was within sight of ...

from cburnett5

Titanic stories have always fascinated me. While I am familiar with much of what happened with the Titanic before, during, and after its demise, I was not aware of the complete story regarding the Californian, and its utter and negligent failure to potentially stop the Titanic tragedy. As the sto...

from shizz

The Midnight Watch - David Dyer When this volume popped thorough my letterbox from Real Readers I was ecstatic!! This could not have been a more appropriate choice of book for me. Long have I been a student of the Titanic, the history of the ship and all the events surrounding it before, during a...

from Mercef

A three and a half star rating from me as I felt it became a little too repetitive and thus too long. Lots to learn in this interesting historical novel about the sinking of the Titanic. Could the death toll have been lower if nearby ships had responded to the distress flares? Was the Captain of ...