The great Halifax explosion : a World War I story of treachery, tragedy, and extraordinary heroism

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Bacon, John U., 1964- author

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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...

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 took place: the largest man-made detonation prior to Hiroshima.

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