About the book: 2011 / Throughout history, humanity has strived for distant horizons, it was possessed by the desire to move faster, fly higher, swim deeper... And the result of this was the creation huge fast cars, powerful locomotives, ocean liners, heavy-duty nuclear submarines, stratospheric passenger planes... At the same time, people set various records - speed, range, carrying capacity, height and depth. Unfortunately, along with achievements, there were also sad “records”, terrifying in their scale and consequences. History will forever remember the disaster of the Titanic, the crash of the Hindenburg airship, the explosion of a train in Arzamas and the sinking of the Kursk submarine."…