{"product_id":"collision-course-the-classic-story-of-the-collision-of-the-andrea-doria-and-the-stockholm-9781504049344","title":"Collision Course: The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe definitive \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling account: \"One of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books about shipwreck since \u003ci\u003eA Night to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Detroit News\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the \u003ci\u003eAndrea Doria\u003c\/i\u003e was on her way to New York from her home port in Genoa. Departing from the United States was the much smaller \u003ci\u003eStockholm\u003c\/i\u003e. On the foggy night of July 25, 1956, fifty-three miles southeast of Nantucket in the North Atlantic, the \u003ci\u003eStockholm \u003c\/i\u003esliced through the \u003ci\u003eDoria\u003c\/i\u003e's steel hull. Within minutes, water was pouring into the Italian liner. Eleven hours later, she capsized and sank into the ocean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this \"electrifying book,\" Associated Press journalist Alvin Moscow, who covered the court hearings that sought to explain the causes of the tragedy and interviewed all the principals, re-creates with compelling accuracy the actions of the ships' officers and crews, and the terrifying experiences of the \u003ci\u003eDoria\u003c\/i\u003e's passengers as they struggled to evacuate a craft listing so severely that only half of its lifeboats could be launched (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e). Recounting the heroic, rapid response of other ships--which averted a catastrophe of the same scale as that of the \u003ci\u003eTitanic--\u003c\/i\u003eand the official inquest, Moscow delivers a fact-filled, fascinating drama of this infamous maritime disaster, and explains how a supposedly unsinkable ship ended up at the bottom of the sea. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Walter Lord, author of \u003ci\u003eA Night to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e, said of \u003ci\u003eCollision Course\u003c\/i\u003e: \"More than a magnificent analysis of the accident and sinking; it is a warmly compassionate document, full of understanding for the people on each side.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlvin Moscow worked as a journalist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the Associated Press, where he covered the court hearings that sought to determine the cause of the crash of two ocean liners, the \u003ci\u003eAndrea Doria\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eStockholm\u003c\/i\u003e--the subject of his critically acclaimed\u003ci\u003e New York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling book\u003ci\u003e Collision Course\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written and collaborated on fourteen other books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Rockefeller Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMerchants of Heroin\u003c\/i\u003e, and autobiographies of Richard M. Nixon, Patricia Hearst, William S. Paley, and Harold Geneen. He currently lives in Nevada.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50704932634898,"sku":"9781504049344","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88185b5b-93c3-448b-8095-30c5fcdc8f55.jpg?v=1734483128","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/collision-course-the-classic-story-of-the-collision-of-the-andrea-doria-and-the-stockholm-9781504049344","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}