{"product_id":"collision-course-the-classic-story-of-the-collision-of-the-andrea-doria-and-the-stockholm-9781504049344","title":"Collision Course: The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe definitive \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling account: \"One of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books about shipwreck since \u003cem\u003eA Night to Remember\u003c\/em\u003e\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Detroit News\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the \u003cem\u003eAndrea Doria\u003c\/em\u003e was on her way to New York from her home port in Genoa. Departing from the United States was the much smaller \u003cem\u003eStockholm\u003c\/em\u003e. On the foggy night of July 25, 1956, fifty-three miles southeast of Nantucket in the North Atlantic, the \u003cem\u003eStockholm \u003c\/em\u003esliced through the \u003cem\u003eDoria\u003c\/em\u003e's steel hull. Within minutes, water was pouring into the Italian liner. Eleven hours later, she capsized and sank into the ocean.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this \"electrifying book,\" Associated Press journalist Alvin Moscow, who covered the court hearings that sought to explain the causes of the tragedy and interviewed all the principals, re-creates with compelling accuracy the actions of the ships' officers and crews, and the terrifying experiences of the \u003cem\u003eDoria\u003c\/em\u003e's passengers as they struggled to evacuate a craft listing so severely that only half of its lifeboats could be launched (\u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e). Recounting the heroic, rapid response of other ships--which averted a catastrophe of the same scale as that of the \u003cem\u003eTitanic--\u003c\/em\u003eand the official inquest, Moscow delivers a fact-filled, fascinating drama of this infamous maritime disaster, and explains how a supposedly unsinkable ship ended up at the bottom of the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Walter Lord, author of \u003cem\u003eA Night to Remember\u003c\/em\u003e, said of \u003cem\u003eCollision Course\u003c\/em\u003e: \"More than a magnificent analysis of the accident and sinking; it is a warmly compassionate document, full of understanding for the people on each side.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This brilliantly exciting narrative will go down as one of the great sagas of the sea.\" --\u003cem\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Alvin Moscow's splendid book tells the full story. . . . More than a magnificent analysis of the accident and sinking; it is a warmly compassionate document, full of understanding for the people on each side.\" --Walter Lord, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"One of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books about shipwreck since\u003cem\u003e A Night to Remember\u003c\/em\u003e.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Detroit News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An electrifying book.\" --\u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"People who liked Lord's \u003cem\u003eA Night to Remember\u003c\/em\u003e will want to read this dramatic, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the \u003cem\u003eAndrea Doria\u003c\/em\u003e disaster.\" --\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A highly perceptive, immensely readable account of the [\u003cem\u003eDoria\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cem\u003eStockholm\u003c\/em\u003e] collision.\" --\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Dramatically recounts the night of death and horror . . . Moscow gives the best explanation yet of the basic questions involved in the disaster.\" --\u003cem\u003eAkron Beacon Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Thrilling . . . gripping . . . a really stupendous book.\" --Alexander Crosby Brown, maritime historian, \u003cem\u003eDaily Press\u003c\/em\u003e (Newport)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alvin Moscow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Road Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781504049344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlvin Moscow worked as a journalist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the Associated Press, where he covered the court hearings that sought to determine the cause of the crash of two ocean liners, the \u003ci\u003eAndrea Doria\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eStockholm\u003c\/i\u003e--the subject of his critically acclaimed\u003ci\u003e New York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling book\u003ci\u003e Collision Course\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written and collaborated on fourteen other books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Rockefeller Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMerchants of Heroin\u003c\/i\u003e, and autobiographies of Richard M. Nixon, Patricia Hearst, William S. Paley, and Harold Geneen. He currently lives in Nevada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39826937151603,"sku":"9781504049344","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6599f87c-4920-455d-9652-b758fa6504f6.jpg?v=1644558600","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/collision-course-the-classic-story-of-the-collision-of-the-andrea-doria-and-the-stockholm-9781504049344","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}