Explosion at Morgan:: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster

Auteurs

• Randall Gabrielan

Paramètres

• 160 pages
• 6 heures de lecture

• Histoire
• Nonfiction

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While World War I raged in Europe, America scrambled to supply the Allies with ammunition, and several munitions plants were constructed near the Jersey Shore. The hastily built plants hummed with hardly a mishap until the fateful night of October 4, 1918, when a series of explosions killed one hundred people. Firemen and other volunteers were powerless to stop the destruction as it devastated the Morgan-South Amboy area and terrified the surrounding region. Strangely, though, this woeful disaster has been forgotten by history. New Jersey historian Randall Gabrielan re-creates this terrifying night and its aftermath in the context of Middlesex County's role in the Great War.

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• Année de publication: 2012
• Reliure: (souple)