“Gareth Russell has chosen a handful of passengers on the doomed liner and by training a spotlight on every detail of their lives, he has given us a meticulous, sensitive, and at times harsh picture of the early 20th century in Britain and America. A marvelous piece of work.” —Julian Fellowes, creator of *Downton Abbey*
A riveting account of the Titanic disaster and the unraveling of the gilded Edwardian society that had created it.