walter lord

To make Titanic’s story more tangible, I have purchased a few items that help me get closer to the ship and its passengers. I'm curious if others do the same and what items they cherish? To break the ice, I'll share my small collection with a brief explanation for each item. I'd love to hear and...

In reading ANTR for the first time, I was amazed at how many actual statements from real passengers and crew on Titanic. Did Walter Lord actual gather all these interviews for his book? Did he personally interview some passengers or gather from various sources? I find it amazing all the actual...

Whenever I visit my 90 year old grandfather in Iowa, I browse through the set of World Books Encyclopedias he has from 1961. Walter Lord wrote a short article about the Titanic which is included in it. It features the Willy Stower drawing of the sinking. Here is a picture of the cover and the...

I'd be surprised if the filmmakers of the recent movies Midway (2019) and Dunkirk (2017) didn't read Walter Lord's books Incredible Victory and The Miracle of Dunkirk in the research process. Several scenes in those films are described almost exactly in those books. I wonder if the cast members...

Since Walter Lord lived in Manhattan for the last years of his life before he died in May 2002, I was wondering if there's any information about what he was doing on the day the 9/11 attacks occurred. Were most people forced to evacuate Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed? That...

According to the 1993 documentary film The Making of "A Night to Remember", which is available to view as a special feature on the Criterion Collection 2012 DVD and Blu-Ray of the 1958 film A Night to Remember, Walter Lord says in an interview that he came up with the idea to give the book that...

I've heard that he advised James Cameron with certain aspects of the film, but I don't know whether he visited the set or seen the completed film like he did with 1958's A Night to Remember.

Contains many extra photos and charts that were not in earlier editions. Dust jacket is a bit tattered but the book itself is in very good condition. I'm not an expert collector so I don't know official book condition grading but there are no loose pages, no tears that I can find, and the only...

I received the new Criterion Blu-Ray version of ANTR, and the result is an impressive upgrade over the previous release. The transfer is outstanding and this time the sequence snipped in the previous release of the "British" version (but which was included in the American version released on...

Some of my favorite Titanic books are: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord The Night Lives On by Walter Lord White Star: A Dog on the Titanic by Marty Crisp Titanic trilogy by Gordon Korman (Unsinkable, Collision Course, S.O.S.) Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson White I...

Walter Lord's "The Night Lives On" is a series of very focused and well-researched chapters on the Titanic disaster. Lord seems to have developed a healthy skepticism, with age. He is quite critical of the Titanic's crew, and Lightoller, who complained that on April 14 "everything was against...

I remember reading this book several years ago and at the end of the book he talks about all the survivors he knew. He mentions Ruth Blanchard and states that he didn't get in touch with her during his research for A Night To Remember but since then has had the pleasure to meet but unfortunately...

Like to find the correct dust cover for a Henry Holt and Company Classics Library edition which was published in 1991- it doesn't actually say, but on the first page is a seal with- a owl, 125th anniversary, 1886-1991. Hardcover with print on front of stylized paisley fish and diamond shaped...

Here in the United States, our Postal Service honors the lives of noteworthy Americans by issuing commemorative stamps featuring these individuals. One category of recognition is for persons noted for their Literary Arts works. This has included Ogden Nash, Zora Neare Hurston, Theodore...

I know its not been long since Walter Lord passed away. But I was wondering if Lords health was good enough at the time of the release of Camerons movie to enjoy some of the limelight that the movie brought to him? I think I remember reading that his best seller " A Night To Remember" has never...

I visited the NMM in Greenwich yesterday to view the collection of Lord-Macquitty, bequathed to the museum. I was first alerted by Sam Halpern that the collection may contain first-hand material that may help in sinkig forensics, but I also wanted to see the Californian related material. The...

I have heard from Kate Jarvis at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, http://www.nmm.ac.uk. that they have now catalogued Walter Lord's papers. They are in a collection with William MacQuitty's papers titled the Lord-MacQuitty Papers. The call number is LMQ. At present they have catalogued...

I can't put my hands on my copy of ANTR, but if I remember correctly, Walter Lord interviewed someone whose named sounded like "Walter Belford", a crewman, yet I can't find his name anywhere. Was he an imposter or did Lord get the name wrong? Thanks. Dennis

I must confess that the only 2 full length books I've ever read on the Titanic are A Night to Remember and The Night Lives On. While this is in part a tribute to the late Mr. Lord's ability as a writer, it's also due to the fact that a lot of Titanic books out there are just mass market fodder...

in walter lord's a night to remember, it says in one passage that two (or three) ladies who were i believe Third Class passengers wandered off just outside the a la carte restaurant windows. are there windows on the aft wall of the restaurant facing the second class promenade deck?