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Historical disasters in which human error or failed technology played a large part.
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Aleksievich, Svetlana Voices from Chernobyl The people of Chernobyl talk about their lives before, during, and after the worst nuclear reactor accident in history which occurred on April 26, 1986 in Chernobyl. 2005 | ||
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Cabbage, Michael Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia An account of the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia draws on internal agency documents, interviews with key participants, and technical details to explain how and why the catastrophe occurred. 2004 | ||
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Dunmore, Spencer Lost Subs: From the Hunley to the Kursk, the Greatest Submarines Ever Lost - and Found A full-color history of lost and sunken submarines traces the history of missing submersibles, from the Confederate Army's Hunley to the recent disaster aboard the Russians' Kursk. 2002 | ||
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Esposito, John C. Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath In Boston, 1942, the Cocoanut Grove was an elite nightclub decorated in a fantasy of tropical glamour. It was also a firetrap, a block-long labyrinth of bars and entertainment areas cobbled together with substandard materials in disregard of building codes or common sense. 2005 | ||
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Flayhart, William H. Perils of the Atlantic: Steamship Disasters 1850 to the Present A distinguished maritime historian offers readers a carefully researched sampling of notable steamship "challenges and disasters" in the North Atlantic. Flayhart (The American Line) begins with the loss of the Collins Line's Arctic in 1854 and ends in 2000 with the loss of the Seabreeze, an obsolete cruise liner on her way to be scrapped. 2003 | ||
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Greene, Melissa Fay Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster Relates the story of how an incredibly lucky group of miners managed to live through the worst mining accident of the twentieth century, the 1958 explosion at Nova Scotia's Springhill Mine. 2003 | ||
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Hanson, Neil The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year 1666 Examines the fire that devastated London in 1666 and offers theories on the origins of the blaze. 2002 | ||
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Hicks, Brian When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, drawing on previously classified FBI reports and first-person survivor interviews to reveal how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew abandoned ship, leaving passengers to fend for themselves. 2006 | ||
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Hoffer, Peter Charles Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos That Reshaped America Discusses how urban fires have impacted American history, from the emergence of the modern skyscraper after Chicago's fire to the realization that modern emergency services need revamping after the attacks of September 11, 2001. 2006 | ||
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Jensen, Claus No Downlink : a Dramatic Narrative About the Challenger Accident and Our Time Recounts the story of the 1986 Challenger disaster and subsequent investigations, traces the history of rockets and the development of the NASA culture, and looks at the Challenger as a symbol. 1996 | ||
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Jones, Chris Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space Describes how, in the wake of the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, the three astronauts orbiting Earth in the International Space Station--Americans Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox and Russian Nikolai Budarin--were forced to come up with a makeshift and risky way to get back home. 2007 | ||
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Kling, Tammy L. Exit Row: The True Story of an Emergency Volunteer a Miraculous Survivor and the Crash of Flight 965 "Exit Row" tells the story of what happens behind the scenes when an airplane crashes. It is the true, dramatic account of an Emergency Response Team's operations immediately following the crash of American Airlines flight 965, which left Miami with 155 passengers filled with Yuletide joy, six flight attendants and two pilots. 2002 Appears on the following book lists:
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Lebedoff, David Cleaning Up: The Story Behind the Biggest Legal Bonanza of Our Time An account of the court action against the Exxon corporation for their huge oil spill off southern Alaska in a boating accident, includes the personal trials--job losses, marital breakups, and suicide contemplation--that took place during the legal trial. 1997 | ||
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MacDonald, Laura Curse of the Narrows Traces the 1917 disaster in Nova Scotia during which a collided and grounded ship exploded and devastated the city under circumstances that would later be studied for the making of the atomic bomb, in an account that also describes the subsequent relief mission and trial of the ship's captain. 2005 | ||
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Minutaglio, Bill City On Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle Recreates the ammonium nitrate explosion that occurred off the coast of Texas City, Texas in 1947 that took the lives of seven hundred people, and injured close to five thousand others, vividly detailing this small town's heroism and courage as they filed a momentous legal claim against the United States government. 2003 | ||
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Negroni, Christine Deadly Departure: Why the Experts Failed to Prevent the TWA Flight 800 Disaster and How it Could Happen Again A blistering behind the scenes look at the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 shows how the airline industry for years ignored an obvious design flaw that could cause explosions and discusses the politics that stymied the investigation of the crash. 2000 | ||
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O'Donnell, Edward T. Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum Describes the 1904 maritime disaster aboard the General Slocum, a steamship chartered for a daytime excursion in the waters surrounding Manhattan, the fire that swept through the ship, and the more than one thousand people who died as a result. 2003 | ||
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O'Nan, Stewart The Circus Fire: A True Story Chronicles the disastrous Hartford circus fire of 1944, a tragedy that claimed 167 lives and changed the history of the city 2000 | ||
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Olsen, Gregg The Deep Dark: Tragedy and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine Recounts the deadly fire that devastated the Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, in May 1972, a disaster that claimed more than ninety lives, and the dramatic rescue of two miners who survived more than a week underground. 2005 | ||
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Pomerantz, Gary M. Nine Minutes Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of ASA Flight 529 Drawing on the testimonies of survivors, this account of the 1995 crash of a commuter plane chronicles the efforts of the flight crew to bring the plane down safely, the inferno that followed, and the aftermath of the tragedy for survivors. 2001 | ||
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