“Here at last is the true memorial ... a book well worthy of marking the centenary of the crystal-clear night when the immense ship slid to her terrible doom” - Simon Winchester
“An astonishing work, of meticulous research, which allows us to know, in painful detail, the men and women on that fateful voyage. Even now, a hundred years later, Mr. Davenport-Hines finds a new, and heart-breaking, story to tell.” - Julian Fellowes, Creator and Executive Producer of "Downton Abbey"
“A shattering human story that is also, when told as well as Davenport-Hines tells it, utterly compelling.” - Sunday Times (UK), lead review
“Eloquent and absorbing… It will stay afloat long after the armada of other Titanic books have gone down.” - The Telegraph (UK)
“This will not be the last book on the Titanic, but it is a safe bet that there will not be a better.” - The Spectator (UK), lead review
“Paints a provocative portrait of the “upstairs, downstairs” social stratification in play aboard the doomed ship. A-” - Entertainment Weekly
“Impressive in both its writing and reporting... It’s a romp. You don’t know who will be strolling down the deck next.” - USA Today
“The story of the Titanic has been told many times; this one takes a sociological perspective, with the confident, graceful prose of fine fiction.” - Wall Street Journal
“Meticulous... detailed account.” - Women's Wear Daily.com
“This intelligent book focuses not on the ship so much as its passengers. Bolstered by photographs of the people who built, staffed, sailed on and survived the Titanic, Davenport-Hines finds a slew of new points of view from which to scan history.” - Denver Post