Collecting the evidence together
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Gracie, as others have said, died after the disaster due to his time in the sea, but in the time he had left he managed to collate the accounts of a large number of survivors. After describing his memories of the time immediately after the collision, he orders the accounts of other survivors boat by boat, in an orderly and clear fashion. My only criticism is that he includes a lot of repetition, but that is bound to occur with so many people recalling past events. Before reading this I did not know much about the disaster, and Gracie's work proved to be an excellent introduction to the topic. This is certainly my favourite account of the Titanic's sinking.
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dying titanic victims explicitly detailed account of sinking
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A. Gracie died in dec 1912, months after the sinking of Titanic. Before his death-due to exposure during the sinking of Titanic-he diligently collected facts about the sinking. He is obsessed in underlining facts, from many angles as possible. By removing the 'wheat from the chaff' he is trying to come to terms with the personal disaster he was involved with. He lists names of those in the life boats bears a lot of repeated information, but the writing has clarity and powerfully recreates the events. I read it three times!
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a obsessed survivors account written before he dies
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Colonel Gracies obsessivily detailed account says more than a being accurate; his mission is to gather his own and others accounts together before his death due to exposure claimed him later that year. He underlines each life-boats characters and lists names, he was using this book to come to terms with the disaster. One of the best accounts I have read, if you ignore some repetition's. The account of the morning sky of the 15th April was one of the most vivid I have read on this topic.
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