I'll dare to post it here, if you guys don't mind.
My new book has just been published (in Russian):
The Break-up of Titanic by Eugene Nesmeyanov
ISBN: 978-5-9955-1110-6
Publisher: Yauza (Moscow)
Published: July 2023
Hardcover, 176 pages; enlarged format
Illustrations: black & white (in the main text), plus a full-color insert.
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On the front cover (main image): a screenshot (mirrored) from
On a Sea of Glass animation (© HFX Studios) kindly provided by Tom Lynskey, for which I'm deeply thankful to him and Tad Fitch!
Brief summary:
A monograph dealing with the break-up of the vessel in a complex multidisciplinary way. A full overview of the history of the issue since the two official inquiries and up to 2022. Critical analysis of the survivor accounts (dozens of them) and their later interpretations, of graphical and cinematic depictions, FEM models and computer animations of the break-up. Debunking of multiple myths and misconceptions, including some latest ones.
A new paradigm of the break-up is developed based on the correction of errors and omissions of previous models.
Table of contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
1. The break-up of
Titanic in the materials of the American inquiry
2. The break-up of
Titanic in the materials of the British inquiry
3. A look at the break-up after the completion of official investigations and until the early 1980s
4. Expeditions to
Titanic with the participation of R. Ballard and his view on the break-up in 1985–89
5. The break-up of
Titanic in the book “
Titanic: An illustrated History” by Lynch & Marschall (1992)
6. The break-up of
Titanic according to W. Garzke et al. (1996)
7. “The Sinking of S.S.
Titanic: Investigated by Modern Techniques” by Hackett & Bedford (1996)
8. The break-up of
Titanic according to W. Garzke et al. (1997). “
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster”
9. The bottom-up break theory of Roy Mengot
10. The break-up as shown in the movie “
Titanic” (1997) by James Cameron
11. The break-up of
Titanic according to Mengot & Woytowich (2009)
12. The
Titanic expedition 2010. A new look at the break-up and the debris field
13. “
Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron”. The break-up of
Titanic according to Stettler & Thomas (2012)
14. The break-up of
Titanic according to W. Lange. “Drain the
Titanic” (2015)
15. The break-up of
Titanic according to R. Roddy and SNAME (2021)
16. “She broke in two”. Witness accounts of the break from the press, literature and sources of personal origin
17. A new paradigm of the break-up of
Titanic (2022)
Conclusion
Postscript (instead of an epilogue)
Appendix. Scientific expeditions to the wreck of
Titanic 1985–2022 (a summary)
List of sources used
Index (ships and persons).
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The book is partially based on this paper of course:
Evolution of Titanic Breakup Theories and the Accepted SNAME MFC Theory (2022)
thehistorypress.co.uk
