Titanic

I ordered Every Man For Himself from Canada since it was out of print here. It's an fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic. It's a little too disjointed and vague in the beginning but after I "wiki-ed" the real story of the Titanic I could fill in the blanks and it got better. Actually a very tragic story with a lot of tragic errors on the part of the designers and builders: insufficient lifeboats, miscommunication etc etc. To further my research I was tempted to watch Titanic again but didn't know if I could bear watching them peer over the bow with Celine Dion wailing in the background so found something called I was a Chambermaid on the Titanic instead, an obscure French film. Not sure about it. Beryl Bainbridge also wrote that wonderful book of the Shackleton expedition The Birthday Boys, she has a way with tragedy.