Dead men tell no tales. Dead ships, however, do. Vivid recent photographs illuminate the grandeur of the world's most storied maritime disaster... and offers us a whole world frozen at the moment of a disaster.

"A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster from the perspectives of six of her first-class passengers--a...