Claes-Göran Wetterholm 

More than 114 years after the Titanic slipped beneath the North Atlantic, the world’s most famous shipwreck is still lying to us.

The movies got it wrong, the textbooks glossed over it and the myths, from women and children first to third-class passengers being deliberately locked below deck, have become part of accepted history.

Now, one of the world’s foremost Titanic historians is setting the record straight.

Claes-Göran Wetterholm has spent decades studying the Titanic disaster. He has pored over survivor testimonies, maritime records, and artefacts that most people never see.