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100 1 $aMacDonald, Laura,$d1963-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94104555
245 10 $aCurse of the Narrows /$cLaura M. Mac Donald.
260 $aNew York :$bWalker & Co. :$bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,$c2005.
300 $a355 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-345) and index.
520 1 $a"In 1917, the busy Canadian port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was crowded with supply ships servicing war-torn Europe. On the morning of December 6, a Belgian relief vessel called the Imo collided with the Mont Blanc, a munitions ship packed with high explosives, in the hard-to-navigate Narrows of the harbor. Minutes later, the Mont Blanc grounded, ablaze, on the Halifax waterfront. The catastrophic explosion that followed - so powerful that it was later studied by J. Robert Oppenheimer to predict the effects of the atomic bomb - set off a chain reaction of events that would devastate the city and shock the world." "Set against the backdrop of World War I, Curse of the Narrows chronicles one of the most dramatic events in North American history. Utilizing primary sources, including the files of the explosion's official historian plus medical and social work files - many of which have not been read since 1918 - Laura M. Mac Donald has written the definitive narrative history of this early-twentieth-century tragedy and the untold story of America's first emergency response unit."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHalifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004001928
651 0 $aHalifax (N.S.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aHalifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917$xHistory$y20th century.
610 20 $aMont Blanc (Freighter)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005034345
610 20 $aImo (Steamer)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005034351
651 0 $aHalifax (N.S.)$vBiography.
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