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Charles Lightoller
distinguished service cross
dunkirk
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first world war
forthcoming
royal naval reserve officer
royal navy
second world war
sinking of titanic
titanic
titanic survivors
u boat
war hero
world war one
world war two
zeppelin bombing
Product details
- ISBN 9781837051731
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jun 2026
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Today, Charles Lightoller is known primarily as the most senior officer to survive the sinking of Titanic, but that was just one chapter in his remarkable story. To avoid the cotton mills of his native Lancashire town, a 13-year-old Lightoller joined the crew of a four-masted sailing ship, and he would remain at sea on various ships until 1920. During his thirty-year maritime career and beyond, he would survive four shipwrecks, a Zeppelin bombing, a duel with a U-boat and a perilous motor-yacht mission to Dunkirk, ultimately emerging as a hero of both world wars.
Compiled using extensive research, including previously unseen family information, Houdini of the Sea is the extraordinary tale of a man who escaped death many times over.
BRIAN IZZARD, born in Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy, has long been interested in maritime and military history. A naval career had beckoned but a change of course led to Fleet Street, where he spent many years, latterly on the staff of the Daily Express and the Sunday Express.
