cover of book
 

City on Fire: The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle
by Bill Minutaglio
University of Texas Press, 2014
eISBN: 978-0-292-76105-6 | Paper: 978-0-292-75923-7
Library of Congress Classification F394.T4M56 2014

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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.


See other books on: City | Disasters | Fire | Fires | Industrial accidents
See other titles from University of Texas Press
Nearby on shelf for United States local history / Gulf States. West Florida / Texas: