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The great Halifax explosion : a World War I story of treachery, tragedy, and extraordinary heroism / John U. Bacon.
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- ISBN: 9780062695758
- ISBN: 0062695754
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 45 min., 20 sec.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2017]
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| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Johnny Heller. |
| Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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| Subject: | Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917. Halifax (N.S.) > History > 20th century. Explosions > Nova Scotia > Halifax > History > 20th century. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an extraordinary disaster awaited. . . .On Monday, December 3, 1917, the French freighter SS Mont-Blanc set sail from Brooklyn carrying the largest cache of explosives ever loaded onto a ship, including 2,300 tons of picric acid, an unstable, poisonous chemical more powerful than TNT. The U.S. had just recently entered World War I, and the ordnance was bound for the battlefields of France, to help the Allies break the grueling stalemate that had protracted the fighting for nearly four demoralizing years. The explosives were so dangerous that Captain Aime