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City on Fire: The Explosion That Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited an Historic Legal Battle
City on Fire The Explosion That Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited an Historic Legal Battle
Author: Bill Minutaglio
In 1947, Texas City was booming, bristling with chemical and oil plants built to fuel Europe's seemingly endless appetite for raw materials. In April, two oceangoing freighters holding a combined 3,000-plus tons of ammonium nitrate exploded. The effect was cataclysmic. Thousands of people were wounded or killed, the fire department was decimated...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060959913
ISBN-10: 0060959916
Publication Date: 1/1/2004
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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