Walter Lord
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: The most awesome ocean-going vessel the world had ever seen, the mighty TITANIC struck an iceberg and sank on the night of April 14, 1912, carrying more than 1500 souls-and uncountable secrets-to the icy bottom of the mid-Atlantic. Why did the crew steam full speed ahead into dangerous waters despite six wireless warnings? How able was the doomed behemoth's superb seaman Captain Smith? Why did the nearby ship Californian ignore Titanic's...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to Paris and London was clear. Unable to retreat any farther, the Allied soldiers set up defense positions and prayed for deliverance. Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered an...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In his unforgettable rendering of Walter Lord's book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the Titanic's final hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night To Remember is cinema's subtlest, finest dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen dual layer ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
