Dave, just the person I need. You commented this a few months back: Marian, I generally recommend David Gleicher's book, though I think he overstates his case at times. It's well researched.
Our new book, THE LOSS OF THE SS TITANIC A CENTENNIAL REAPPRAISAL, contains a careful study of the treatment of the third class passengers. It's more detailed than anything previously seen. It counteracts misinformation put about in movies. It's becoming available right now.
Steven Biel's Down With the Old Canoe looks at how the disaster was seen by various groups in US society.
Some of the older books are getting a bit obsolete. ANTR is a good read, but it's not always reliable.
By the way, do you know that in raw figures slightly more third class men survived than first class? In percentage terms it was worse of course. Second class men did worst of all.
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Dave Gittins
Where did you read: ‘that in raw figures slightly more third class men survived than first class? In percentage terms it was worse of course. Second class men did worst of all.'
If you could provide me with more info that would be great as I could use this to argue survival of the sinking did not depend on social class (although I believe it did)
Also yes I have used RMS Titanic, a Centennial Reappraisal (great book)
but I also need plenty more to cover the 2nd half of my dissertation and it would be great to find some sources who argue against my case or any other books that talk about the third class would be great.
These are the books I have already used:
Filson Young Titanic
Paul J Quinn Titanic at Two
Judith B Geller Titanic Women and Children first
Sean Molony Titanic Victims and Villains/ The Irish aboard Titanic
Walter Lord The night lives on
Geoff Tibballs The Mammoth book of how it happened Titanic
David Brown the last log of the Titanic
R P Howells The myth of the Titanic
S. Barczewski Titanic: a night remembered
D.Gleicher, Research in Maritime History No. 31, The rescue of the third class on the Titanic, A revisionist history
( I read Gleicher’s book at the museum archives but would like to get a copy of my own but struggling to find anything online)
T. Bergfelder, S. Street, The Titanic in myth and memory: representations in visual and literary culture
G. Behe, On Board RMS Titanic
R. Musman, Titanic
S. Biel, Down with the old canoe: a cultural history of the Titanic disaster
P. K. Sebak, Titanic 31 Norwegian Destinies
R. Gardiner, Titanic: The ship that never sank
A. Ruffman, Titanic Remembered: The Unsinkable Ship and Halifax
D. Haisman, Titanic: The Edith Brown Story
Thank you
Marian