Titanic (DK Eyewitness Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book for my daughter for her birthday and she absolutely loved it. She is a relatively new reader and she found it easy to understand. I enjoyed reading it too. I would recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the Titanic, who doesn't want to get too technical but still is interested in the history of the great ship.

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"Unsinkable": The Full Story of the RMS Titanic Review

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(More customer reviews)I have also spent a good part of my life researching the Titanic disaster, and I wonder about Butler's sources. Much of the book seems to be the product of a fertile imagination rather than research, or at the least, some serious extrapolation with known facts. I have examined practically everything I have found regarding the disaster and have yet to discover some of Butler's information.
A few years ago Butler virtually took over a USENET newsgroup concerning the Titanic, insulting some of the members and setting himself up as an undisputed authority on the disaster. Eventually he ran off many of the members, including myself.
Before that occurred, I corresponded with him about one minor item I had found in the book, a notation that the USS Scorpion had collided with a Soviet submarine and this led to her loss. I wrote to him and asked him about his source, and if he had any more details. He told me that he had "heard" about it when he was in Army Intelligence, and could discuss it no further. However, in the book it is stated as a fact.
This book has a great deal of information in it, but when you are required to question almost everything contained in it, then its value as a historical document is severly diminished.

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