GREAT DISASTERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY - Hardcover

Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint of 1990 original. "Macabre as it may seem, human history and memory is punctuated and categorized, at least in part, by the disasters which befall it. People remember where they were and what they were doing when disaster struck; it is as if calamity brings into perspective the trivialities of daily living, providing windows through which a greater significance can be glimpsed. This chronicle presents the worst and most significant disasters of the twentieth century. Repeatedly man has fallen victim to the violent and indiscriminate forces of nature-cyclones, typhoons, tornados, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes-as well as to his own "man-made" disasters, the result of neglect, malfunction, or sheer accident-fires, plane crashes, explosions, dam collapses, and the sinking of boats." 112 pages. "150 historic photographs document the century's most compelling disasters, revealing both the fragile nature of our world and the strength of the human spirit." Disasters depicted and chronicled include the Titanic, the Hindenburg, the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, Chernobyl, the 1902 eruptions of Martinque's Mt. Pelee, the 1970 Bangladesh cyclone, the 1976 Chinese Earthquake, the 1970 Peru Avalanche, the New England Hurricane of 1938, the 1931 Yellow River Flood, The British Soccer Disasters of 1985 and 1989, the 1986 Challenger explosion, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the 1963 sinking of the USS Thresher, the Canary Island Airport Collision of 1977, the Holland floods of 1953, and many more. Bumping to top of DJ spine and mnor rubbing to DJ, elsewise a fine, bright, clean, tight, collector-worthy copy! GE2. Seller Inventory # 004253

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