CURSE OF THE NARROWS - The Halifax Explosion in 1917

Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 356 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a faintly creased spine; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. December 6, 1917 when the French cargo ship, SS Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, collided with the SS Imo, a Norwegian vessel in the Narrows, which runs between the Halifax Harbour and the Bedford Basin... The explosion was the worst man-made non-nuclear explosion ever. Much of Halifax was flattened and a few thousand people were killed, thousands more injured. The Chapters are: A Short History of Halifax; Wednesday; December 6, 1917: Winter Morning; Black Smoke, White Smoke; A Word on Explosions; Minutes Later; Far from the Harbor; Scramble at City Hall; The First Responders; Duggan Walks Home; Nightfall; Friday Night and Folly Mountain; Saturday: Reorganizing the Relief; Duggans Reunited, If Briefly; The End of Emergency Relief; Cap Ratshesky Says Good-bye; Playing Solomon; Proper Burials, Private Services; Monday, December 17, 1917; The Rules of the Road versus the Law of the Land; and The Tree at Boston Common; followed by an epilogue and appendices: A: Accident of Sabotage; B: Preparing for the Future; C: Francis Mackey Interview; D: By the Numbers; E: Wreck Commission Participants and Witnesses; Featured People; and Ships; along with archives, notes and an index..