Books with author Walter LORD

Taffy is a short story about a doggy and her human family. It is sad, happy, and poignant. It is about choices, some good, some bad, and some that are just choices not good or bad, they are what they are. Mostly it is a children's story for adults. Preface -- Who do you work for? That was the question asked of me before children and before Taffy. Every party, social event and gathering. I use to laugh and say I work for no one. When Taffy arrived I soon started to think I really worked for her. Now that she is gone I am certain of this. The reasons I will tell you inside my story. I was so clueless that Taffy was my master, no my teacher, my doggy. --

[Read by Fred Williams]The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the ''unsinkable'' Titanic. -- 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 fifty 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.

This is the authoritative work on the Titanic Disaster. The author Walter Lord spent years searching for and interviewing Titanic survivors. Still his work was not complete. Some people were embarrassed that they had survived when so many others had died. So they wrote memoirs but hid their memories which in some cases are still just coming out today. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. A Night to Remember was made into a movie by the same name in 1958. In 1997, when James Cameron came out with his blockbuster movie Titanic, first he bought the book and the movie rights to A Night to Remember. For example, a Japanese man survived but he did not tell anybody about this. He was a lower class passenger. The way he survived was when the lifeboats were being lowered he jumped through one of the windows onto a lifeboat that was already filled with passengers. The other passengers did not push him out. When they got to the water, he helped them row away. Jumping onto the boat as it was being lowered his was considered a dishonorable thing to do in Japan, so when he got back to Tokyo, he did not tell anybody about this. Only after he died years later did his family reveal this.