The face of disaster

About this book

Explores similarities between the explosion at a munitions factory in Chestertown (MD), explosion of a shipload of nitrates at Texas City (TX), tornados ripping through Worcester (MA), Waco (TX) and Flint (MI), the North Sea flooding Dutch towns, a bomb over Hiroshima, the Cocoanut Grove fire, the 1952 Cairo riots, Hurricane Diane, the flooding of Eagle Pass (TX) and Piedras Negras (Mexico).