When the Titanic sank, the impact was felt around the world, but nowhere more than in the city of Southampton, which had provided the vast majority of her crew, and whose whole economy was linked to the great liners; as a result it has always had a considerable interest in the Titanic, at an almost personal level, and has collected much memorabilia in this regard, including vast quantities of written or spoken memoirs of survivors, or those directly affected by the disaster. This book, and its accompanying DVD, is the result, concentrating on the people of the Titanic and their memories of the disaster, and how it affected them. As a record of what happened on the 15th April 1912 from the unfortunate participants’ point of view, this is hard to beat. The 48 minute DVD is really audio recordings from the Southampton archives, with film sequences, some of which repeat. But to hear, amongst many others, Second Officer Charles Lightoller talking on the BBC in the 1930s, or Fourth Officer Joseph Boxall taking in the 1960s, really does open up windows to the past. The book is a very well produced 328 page hardback, with around 600 B&W photos and a 23 page colour section. Southampton City Council