Saved!: The Story of the Andrea Doria, the Greatest Sea Rescue in HistoryCompelling personal stories of both courage and cowardice mark this vivid narrative of the 1956 sea disaster in which the Italian luxury liner and the Stockholm collided during a thick fog off Nantucket. |
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User Review - setnahkt - LibraryThingPart of the “response to disaster” reading theme. I am old enough to just barely remember – or at least to imagine I just barely remember – television coverage of the collision of the Andrea Doria and ... Read full review
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User Review - Debra - GoodreadsVery well-written account of the collision of the Stockholm with the Andrea Doria on July 25, 1956 off the coast of Nantucket. Read full review
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| Title | Saved!: The Story of the Andrea Doria, the Greatest Sea Rescue in History |
| Author | William Hoffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Summit Books, 1979 |
| Original from | Northwestern University |
| Digitized | Mar 30, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0671400401, 9780671400408 |
| Length | 249 pages |
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