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Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917 / Sally M. Walker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Square Fish, Henry Holt and Co., 2014.; �2011Edition: 1st Square Fish edDescription: x, 148 p. : ill., geneal. tables, maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1250040086
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 971.6/22503 23
LOC classification:
  • F1039.5.H17 W35 2014
Summary: Provides an account of the disaster that occurred on December 6, 1917, when two ships carrying munitions and relief supplies to Europe collided, causing an explosion that leveled the towns of Halifax and Dartmouth and resulted in the deaths of nearly two thousand people.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143) and index.

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Provides an account of the disaster that occurred on December 6, 1917, when two ships carrying munitions and relief supplies to Europe collided, causing an explosion that leveled the towns of Halifax and Dartmouth and resulted in the deaths of nearly two thousand people.

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