"Titanic" Survivor - John Maxtone-Graham

This is a unique eye-witness account of the most written about disaster of the 20th century. Joining the Royal Mail Line in 1908, Violet Jessop spent her entire career at sea, travelling on more than 200 voyages. She was a stewardess for the first-class passengers on the "Titanic" when it sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Her description of the sinking is chilling as she sees to the needs of the passengers before finding a warm coat for herself. Four years later, she was a wartime nurse aboard the hospital ship "Britannic" when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean.;These memoirs provide a unique glimpse of life below decks aboard one of the great ocean liners. From Jessop's vantage point readers learn what life was like for those who worked on the ships: hilarious fellow stewardesses, cramped quarters, wartime alerts, impossible passengers, philandering shipmates, exotic ports, unrequited love and tragic deaths.