I have read and watched quite a bit of things about the sinking of The Titanic, and I cannot say that I learned a lot of technical information from this book that I did not already know. However, the personal accounts that the author pulled from newspaper interviews, letters, journal entries, and court hearings contained valuable information for painting a picture of the lives of people in this time period, from different classes, and the experiences from the wreck. This book took quite a while to listen to, but is only around 300 pages for those interested in physical copies.