101 Things You Thought You Knew About The Titanic ...

[Beautiful Books]

101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic…But Didn’t!
By Tim Maltin


The proven truth behind the many questions people they knew the answers to.



“Fantastic!” – George Behe, Vice President of Titanic Historical Society

Everybody thinks they know what happened on that fateful night in 1912 when the Titanic sank. After countless films, documentaries and books, people feel they know the events inside out. However, due to the enduring interest and appetite for information on this most famous of ships, legends, myths and outright fabrications have also endured and clouded the truth. But not any more.

Transferring a personal obsession and lifetime fascination with the Titanic on to the page, Tim Maltin, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject with an encyclopaedic knowledge and an enthusiast’s passion on the subject, has gathered his many years’ worth of research together to create this wonderful compendium of facts.

Puncturing myths and bolstering truths with referenced evidence, 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic…But Didn’t! is a fascinating guide to this most popular of subjects. Do you know whether the points below are true or not? You may be surprised by the answers:
• There weren’t enough lifeboats on board.
• The lookouts didn’t spot the iceberg because they weren’t given binoculars
• Owner Ismay ordered the ship to go faster than normal in order to break the transatlantic speed record.
• The band went down playing Nearer My God to Thee

Published as a prelude to the sinking of the Titanic’s centenary in 2012, when Tim Maltin’s magnum opus on the subject will also be published (a work that will shatter many preconceived notions on the sinking and will put forth a new, proven theory why many more people died that night than should have), 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic…But Didn’t is a fascinating, pocket-sized reference book that will delight, surprise and fascinate in equal measure.

Tim Maltin has been studying the Titanic for 25 years. He is currently working on his magnum opus which, published in 2012, which will be the definitive account of what actually happened that fateful night. Tim works in London and lives in Wiltshire.


Key Notes:
1. For further information please contact Ryan Davies at Beautiful Books (ryan@beautiful-books.co.uk or 0207 734 4448).
2. Tim Maltin is an expert on the subject, having studied it for 25 years.
3. Tim will be publishing his magnum opus on the Titanic in 2012, the centenary of the sinking of the ship.
4. The Titanic is a perennially popular subject. This books debunks the many myths and legends that have now become “fact” in the public consciousness.
5. Published by Beautiful Books, 15th April 2010, hardback, £12.99