I received my order of William Russo's Tales of a Titanic Family a few days ago. It is about the background and family life of Titanic passengers Percival & Richard White, father and son, my favourite Titanic passengers. They were travelling First Class, befriended several others including the mother and daughter pair of Elizabeth and Mary Lines, Ida Hippach and her daughter Gertrude and so on. After the ship collided with the iceberg, the men alerted the Lines ladies and escorted them to Lifeboat #9 before stepping back themselves to help others even though they would have been allowed into that starboard lifeboat if they had tried to get in. Both men went down with the Titanic.
I have an e-mail from another source that Elizabeth and Mary Lines always said that they owed their lives to the Whites.
The book reveals the Whites' family life, properties, friendships etc. Even a preliminary fast reading gives the odd feeling that the two men were ahead of their times in terms of thinking, planning etc. A splendid combination of old world courtesy and modern forward thinking.
I know that a biographical book like this is not everyone's cup of tea but still, I would highly recommend it.