|aBlizzard of glass :|bthe Halifax explosion of 1917 /|cSally M. Walker.
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|a1st Square Fish paperback ed.
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|aNew York :|bSquare Fish,|c2014.
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|ax, 148 p. :|bill., map ;|c21 cm.
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|aOriginally published by Henry Holt and Company.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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|aRecounts the story from World War I in which two towns were leveled and almost two thousand people killed following the collision of two warships in Halifax Harbour and a blizzard that dumped over a foot of snow in the area.
Relates the harrowing tale from World War I in which two towns were leveled and nearly 2,000 people killed when two warships collided in Halifax Harbour and then a blizzard dumped more than a foot of snow on the area, hampering relief efforts.
Sally M. Walker is the author of Written in Bone, Fossil Fish Found Alive, and Secrets of a Civil War Submarine, which was awarded a Sibert Medal. She lives in Illinois.