Full name: Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917

Author: Sally M. Walker Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805089455 9781250040084 0805089454

On December 6, 1917 two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts. Fascinating, edge-of-your-seat storytelling based on original source material conveys this harrowing account of tragedy and recovery. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum. Similar books: Written in Bone by Sally M. Walker Curse of The Narrows by Laura M. Mac Donald The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon Shattered City by Janet F. Kitz The Town that Died by Michael J. Bird Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Persian Fire by Tom Holland Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown SPQR by Mary Beard The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly Triangle by David Von Drehle Only Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen The Course of Human Events by David McCullough Eyewitness to History by John Carey Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz Titanic by Deborah Hopkinson