Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion by Alan Ruffman, Michael Dupuis

Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion

Alan Ruffman, Michael Dupuis

222 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
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At approximately 8:45 a.m. on 6 December 1917, the Belgian Relief vessel IMO struck the munitions-laden freighter Mont-Blanc in Halifax Harbour. The Mont-Blanc exploded in a devastating 2.9 kiloton blast, which killed 2,000 people and injured 9,00...

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