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Michael J. Bird

The Town That Died

The story of the world's greatest man-made explosion before Hiroshima

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On Thursday, December 6th 1917, a French freighter loaded with over 2,500 tons of high explosives collided with another vessel in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and caught fire. At exactly 9.06am she blew up. The explosions, which was seen and heard fifty-two miles away, unleashed a man-made destructive force unequalled in power until the first atomic bomb. It levelled the Halifax waterfront, wiped out a square mile of the city from the face of the earth and sent an enormous wave crashing over the piers to tear ocean-going ships from their moorings. The Town That Died tells in full the whole story of this appalling disaster, which led t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-285-64129-7
  • EAN: 9780285641297
  • Produktnummer: 13862196
  • Verlag: Profile
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'954 KB

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Michael J. Bird

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