I have to give the author a great deal of credit he has taken a story which seems to have run out of new angles and breathed new life into it. After James Cameron's movie one would think the story has been told to death. Rather than focusing on the well told tales of first class, not enough lif...
He did so, however, at an Oxford dinner of 1981 held in honour of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Sir Michael Howard, one of the official historians of wartime intelligence, had just made a jocular speech referring to the double agent codenamed Garbo. The ex-Prime Minister rose to declare that he had never he...
—ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, “AMOURS DE VOYAGE” There is no mistake about it, the ocean is simply disgusting,” a first-class passenger wrote to his wife as he crossed the Atlantic on the White Star liner Teutonic in 1905. “We are nearing New York, in a fierce snowstorm which makes the ship roll atrociou...