Angela Young is the great-granddaughter of one of the few survivors of the Titanic disaster in 1912.  She talks about the Countess of Rothes, recounting what she saw and how she tried to help as the ship went down.  It is a remarkable overview of events that night; the countess finds herself in Lifeboat No.8 working with Able Seaman Thomas Jones to save as many passengers as possible.  Ignoring class boundaries and gender, they worked together to navigate the small life craft for more than seven hours, among towering icebergs in the North Atlantic Ocean.  Based on eyewitness accounts published for the first time, the book shows the bravery of these two unlikely heroes and considers why so very few people survived the tragedy.