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    Jun 02, 2020 2 minutes

    THE TITANIC AND THE CITY OF WIDOWS IT LEFT BEHIND

    THE FORGOTTEN VICTIMS OF THE FATAL VOYAGE

     Julie Cook Pen & Sword, 140 pages, £19.99

    On 15 April 1912, Julie Cook’s great grandfather William Bessant – a fireman in the boiler room of the world’s largest and most luxurious cruise liner – drowned when the hit an iceberg

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