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The Story of the Andrea Doria, the Greatest Sea Rescue in History
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The Story of the Andrea Doria, the Greatest Sea Rescue in History
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Compelling personal stories of both courage and cowardice mark this vivid narrative of the 1956 sea disaster in which the Italian luxury liner and the Stockholm collided during a thick fog off Nantucket.
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Curiously, in Italy the loss of the Andrea Doria has not, over time, had the stir it would have deserved. Accomplice to a trial in which the parties involved, both guilty, only wanted to close with a settlement, a press that ended up disinterested in the tragic affair, the Andrea Doria disaster was downgraded to an accident to be absent-mindedly dusted off every July 25.
Peter Hoffer is the only one that I know of who has written a truly engaging, thoroughly documented, strong-toned, unbiased book.
The loss of the Andrea Doria was compensated for by the rescue of almost everyone among her passengers and crew-the casualties were only 46! His story is one of courage and sense of sacrifice of those people.
