The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon

The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes

Brian Dillon

288 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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A masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place: shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje PrizeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works loc...

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