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Search - F5: One Town's Survival of the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century
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F5 One Town's Survival of the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century Author: It was April 3, 1974. Crime was soaring. Unemployment and inflation were out of control. A costly war had just come to its demoralizing end, and an unpopular President was on his way out of office. Then, over a sixteen-hour period, nature stepped forward with its own display of mayhem: an unprecedented outbreak of 148 tornadoes, covering thirtee... more »
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Jennifer W. (GeniusJen) reviewed F5: One Town's Survival of the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century on + 7145 more book reviews
F5 is a really good non-fiction book that reads like the best type of fiction -- action, adventure, thriller, family drama. It's the true-life accounts of what many people lived through in April 1974, when the US suffered the deadliest outbreaks of tornadoes on record.
I read this book in a day, mostly because I didn't want to stop reading once I had started. Mark Levine has truly done his research, but he's written the story of these tornadoes in a way that never seems overbearing or gets so bogged down in pure science that you want to stop reading.
A great book and highly recommended.
I read this book in a day, mostly because I didn't want to stop reading once I had started. Mark Levine has truly done his research, but he's written the story of these tornadoes in a way that never seems overbearing or gets so bogged down in pure science that you want to stop reading.
A great book and highly recommended.
Genres:
- History >> Americas >> United States >> 20th Century >> 1945 - Present
- History >> Americas >> United States
- Science & Math >> Earth Sciences >> Natural Disasters
- Outdoors & Nature >> Reference