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1 online resource |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Introduction""; ""The Priest""; ""The Voyage""; ""The Priest""; ""The Ship""; ""The Company""; ""The Ship""; ""The Priest""; ""The Ship""; ""The Mayor""; ""The Ship""; ""The Mayor""; ""The Warning ""; ""The Ship""; ""The Priest""; ""The People""; ""The First Words from Texas City""; ""The Scientist""; ""The Mayor""; ""The City""; ""The Mayor""; ""The People""; ""The Priest""; ""The Second Explosion""; ""The President""; ""The City""; ""The City""; ""The Gangster""; ""The Priest ""; ""The Unknown Dead""; ""The Mayor"" |
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""""United States of America, Defendant""""""The Trial""; """"By Direction of the President of the United States""""; ""The King Can Do No Wrong""; """"Speak Freely""""; """"Pleased to Advise""""; ""Good People""; ""Acknowledgments"" |
| Summary |
<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> |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Harper Collins, 2003 |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 27, 2014) |
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High Flyer (Ship)
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Grandcamp (Ship)
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Wilson B. Keene (Ship)
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Grandcamp (Ship) fast |
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High Flyer (Ship) fast |
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Wilson B. Keene (Ship) fast |
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Fires -- Texas -- Texas City -- History -- 20th century
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Disasters -- Texas -- Texas City -- History -- 20th century
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Industrial accidents -- Texas -- Texas City -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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Disasters
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Fires
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Industrial accidents
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Texas City (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Texas -- Texas City
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015300155 |
| ISBN |
9780292761049 |
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029276104X |
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9780292761056 |
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0292761058 |
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