City on fire : the explosion that devastated a Texas town and ignited a historic legal battle /

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<P>First published in 2003, <i>City on Fire</i> is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of the most catastrophic disasters in American history.</p>

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Minutaglio, Bill (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edition:First Univeristy of Texas press edition.
Subjects:
High Flyer (Ship)
Grandcamp (Ship)
Wilson B. Keene (Ship)
1900-1999
Fires > Texas > Texas City > History > 20th century.
Disasters > Texas > Texas City > History > 20th century.
Industrial accidents > Texas > Texas City > History > 20th century.
Incendies > Texas > Texas City > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Catastrophes > Texas > Texas City > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Disasters
Fires
Industrial accidents
Texas City (Tex.) > History > 20th century.
Texas > Texas City
Electronic books.
History
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