City on fire : the explosion that devastated a Texas town and ignited a historic legal battle / / Bill Minutaglio
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Minutaglio Bill
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| Titolo: |
City on fire : the explosion that devastated a Texas town and ignited a historic legal battle / / Bill Minutaglio
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| Pubblicazione: | Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2003 |
| ©2003 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 976.4/139 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fires - Texas - Texas City - History - 20th century |
| Disasters - Texas - Texas City - History - 20th century | |
| Industrial accidents - Texas - Texas City - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Texas City (Tex.) History 20th century |
| Texas City (Tex.) Biography | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" |
| """"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"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | First published in 2003, City on Fire 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | City on fire |
| ISBN: | 0-292-76105-8 |
| 0-292-76104-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814868703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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