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City on fire : the forgotten disaster that devastated a town and ignited a landmark legal battle / Bill Minutaglio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Minutaglio, Bill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High Flyer (Ship).
- Grandcamp (Ship).
- Wilson B. Keene (Ship).
- Fires--Texas--Texas City--History--20th century.
- Fires.
- Disasters--Texas--Texas City--History--20th century.
- Disasters.
- Industrial accidents--Texas--Texas City--History--20th century.
- Industrial accidents.
- History.
- Texas City (Tex.)--History--20th century.
- Texas City (Tex.).
- Texas City (Tex.)--Biography.
- Texas--Texas City.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, [2003]
- Summary:
- A dramatically rendered account probes the 20th-century's greatest manmade disaster--the 1947 petrochemical fire at the port of Texas City, Texas--and a small town's unexpected heroism. 16-page photo insert.
- ISBN:
- 0060185414
- OCLC:
- 50034916
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