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Blizzard of glass : the Halifax explosion of 1917 / Sally M. Walker. --
When two ships collided in Halifax Harbour, on December 6, 1917, one of them was full of munitions for World War I. The ensuing explosion, aftershocks, and tsunami wrecked unbelievable devastation. It was the largest explosion in the world until the atomic bomb was detonated in World War II in 1945.
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- ISBN: 0805089454
- ISBN: 9780805089455
- Physical Description: xii, 145 p. : ill., maps.
- Edition: 1st ed. --
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 2011.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-137) and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 21.99 |
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Sally Walker is the author of Written in Bone, Fossil Fish Found Alive, and Secrets of a Civil War Submarine, which was awarded a Sibert Medal. She lives in Illinois.
