In his famous book emA Night to Rememberem, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstructs the fascinating individual histories of twelve of the inhabitants of this tragically short-lived floating town. pThey include members of the crew passengers in First, Second, and Third Class women and men adults and children rich and poor. Among them are a ship's Captain, a Second Officer, an Assistant Wireless Operator a Stewardess, an amateur military historian, a governess, a teacher, a domestic servant, a mother, and three children. What were their earlier histories Who survived, and why, and who perished And what happened to these people in the years after 1912 pemTitanic The Last Night of a Small Townem answers all these questions and more, while offering a minute-by-minute depiction of events aboard the doomed liner through the eyes of a broad and representative cross-section