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As the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction. Told not only from the perspective of the SS Californian crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found. David Dyer's The Midnight Watch is a powerful and dramatic debut??the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.… (más)
This book is historical fiction about the Californian, the closest ship to the Titanic when she hit the iceberg. The author uses his research and knowledge of human nature to explain what happened. I found the explanation very interesting and plausible. To me, this book is for someone more interested in the historical part, which is extremely well done, than the fictional part, which seemed a bit of a distraction. Be advised that the focus of this book is the Californian and her crew, so if you're looking for Leonardo and Kate, this is not it . Recommend to readers of non-fiction or history, particularly maritime history. ( )
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 a nearby ship in someway culpable for his inaction? If you like to “google” whilst you read, then this one is for you. ( )
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 a nearby ship in someway culpable for his inaction? If you like to “google” whilst you read, then this one is for you. ( )
I enjoyed the beginning and the ending of this novel. It lags a little in the middle. The book is heavy on research. For me, the novel suspends the main question that drives the narrative for too many pages: the question "why didn't the Californian (ship) go to the Titanic's aid?" The answer to the "why" question is compelling and dramatic, but I almost see that answer as a kind of beginning to the drama rather than the ending. In some ways, this is an investigative narrative--a kind of murder mystery that explores the motivations of a ship-wide sin of omission (on the Californian). We are searching for who to blame and why we would blame them. There is a surprising section toward the end of the book in which Dyer goes back and forth between the Titanic and the Californian in 8 sections (one section for each of the distress rockets that the Titanic fired on that fateful night) and constructs scenes to depict how the night might have played out for the crew of the Californian and for one family aboard the Titanic. It is devastating and powerful and is probably the most dramatic section of the book. That section begins and ends like a novella that could almost stand on its own. Some of the drama depends on the investigation the novel has built up until then. I have a hunch that this section was the original graduate thesis Dyer mentions in an end note, and the rest of the book was written later to fill out the shorter piece for the purposes of publication. With all this in mind, “The Midnight Watch” is still an exploration of the Titanic disaster that feels fresh, and even necessary. ( )
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As the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction. Told not only from the perspective of the SS Californian crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found. David Dyer's The Midnight Watch is a powerful and dramatic debut??the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.
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