When TITANIC Survivor was first published, it immediately became a bestseller both in the U.S. and U.K. Among the legion of books that emerged from the TITANIC craze precipitated by James Cameron's 1997 film, Jessop's towered above the rest due to its unique authenticity and wrenching firsthand account of that unforgettable tragedy. Following a childhood in Argentina and formative years in England, Violet Jessop spent her entire career ??? and fully half her life ??? at sea. She served as a stewardess for first-class passengers aboard the infamous TITANIC, and, four years later, was a nurse on the ill-fated hospital ship BRITANNIC when it struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Aegean Sea. She went on to write this unique and riveting eyewitness account of both disasters, weaving into her story many fascinating tales of fellow stewards, wartime alarums, impossible passengers, philandering shipmates, exotic ports, and tragic deaths.