Chronicle of a Story Untold: A Survivor's Account of the Marchioness Disaster on the Thames
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/10/2011
A TRUE TALE OF LOVE, MONEY, TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH London: the summer of '89, two years after Big Bang and a few months after the Lockerbie, Hillsborough & Tiananmen Square disasters. The Berlin Wall was down, Perestroika had begun and the First Gulf War was brewing. A glittering crowd of Cambridge and Oxford graduates, models, photographers and fun people gathered at the Embankment to board the Marchioness riverboat and celebrate the 26th birthday of Antonio de Vasconcellos, one of London's highest paid financiers. Twenty minutes after setting sail, The Marchioness was hit, run over and sunk. It was a night that ended the lives of 51 of London's brightest young people and left a mystery that is unsolved to this day. Magda Allani was aboard the Marchioness when it sank; the victims included her closest friends. In this brilliantly evocative account she recreates the disaster and asks a series of disturbing questions...
- ISBN:
- 9781908671004
- 9781908671004
- Category:
- True stories of heroism
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 01-10-2011
- Publisher:
- Slow Burn Publications
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 250
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x17mm
- Weight:
- 0.52kg
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