Author: TIM COATES
Title: Tragic journeys
Description: The Stationery Office/Tso, 2001. Pp: 343. Three of the most tragic journeys the 20th century ever witnessed are combined here in one unique volume.The story of The Titanic is so well known that it hardly needs introduction. But so many myths now surround the ship that it is sometimes hard to discover the truth. The official inquiry presented here is the same report that was presented to the government in 1912. It also includes a reappraisal of the evidence relating to the SS Californian, the ship that failed to come to the rescue of the Titanic on that fateful night.R.101: The Airship Disaster: Little is known today of airship travel yet, in its heyday, the R.101 was considered as glamorous as the Titanic. Sadly the R.101's ultimate fate was equally tragic, as after only seven hours into her maiden voyage to India she lay shattered on a hillside in France, with the loss of 46 lives. The official inquiry investigates the reasons why it all went disastrously wrong.The Munich Air Crash 1958 The loss of eight key players in the Manchester United football team, plus 30 other people on board the BEA aircraft at Munich airport, stunned the world. Presented here for the first time in popular format is the German inquiry into the causes of the crash, plus the British inquiry to consider whether the captain was in any way to blame. ISBN: 9780117024656. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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