Big top burning
Subtitle: the story of an arsonist, a missing girl, and the greatest show on earth
By: Laura A. Woollett
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781613731147
Subjects: Arson; Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows; Dead; Hartford Circus Fire, Hartford, Conn., 1944; Fires; Case studies; Identification; Juvenile literature; History
Description: Draws upon primary source documents and survivor interviews to recount the story of one of the worst disasters in American history, the 1944 Hartford circus fire, which claimed the lives of over one hundred people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-156) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The circus comes to town; title: "The greatest show on earth"; title: Fire!; title: "The day the clowns cried"; title: Municipal hospital; title: "Who knows this child?"; title: Who was to blame?; title: Accident or Arson?; title: A name for Little Miss 1565.