A Night to Remember

By: Walter Lord

Narrated by: Fred Williams

The "unsinkable” Titanic was four city blocks long, with a French “sidewalk café,” private promenade decks, and the latest, most ingenious safety devices… but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 passengers and crew on board.

Gliding through a calm sea, disdainful of all obstacles, the Titanic brushed an iceberg. Two hours and forty minutes later, she upended and sank. Only 705 survivors were picked up from the half-filled boats of “the ship that God Himself couldn’t sink.”

Walter Lord’s classic minute-by-minute re-creation is as vivid now as it was upon first publication more than sixty years ago. From the initial distress flares to the struggles of those left adrift for hours in freezing waters, this audio presentation will bring that moonlit night in 1912 to life for a new generation of readers.

©1955 Walter Lord (P)1997 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"One of the most exciting books of this or any year." ( New York Times )

“[T]he best Titanic story…. the immediacy engages the reader from the start." ( Library Journal)

“[As] seamless and skillful as you’re going to get….it’s clear why this is many a researcher’s Titanic bible.” ( Entertainment Weekly)

Great Read!!

I’ve always loved this book and Mr. Williams does a great job narrating it!! Mr. Lord brings the history of the sinking to life.

I mostly read autobiographies

Everything about this book is astonishing. This book gave me a lot of insight into the character of people.

Interesting Story

I’ve always been fascinated by the Titanic tragedy and this was a really interesting perspective. I learned a lot I never knew before. Good narration too!

excellent story best for true facts

best narrator after listening to about 30 or more books. This book is so full of facts that you do feel like you are right there on that shjp

Night that changed so much.

This disaster changed the way travel on the high seas was executed by increasing safety measures.
It changed the world with the loss of so many of the gilded age and impacted economic conditions. This night changed the wealth of many and ended an era of greatest.