The face of disaster.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Disasters -- Psychological aspects
Description: Explores similarities between the explosion at a munitions factory in Chestertown (MD), explosion of a shipload of nitrates at Texas City (TX), tornados ripping through Worcester (MA), Waco (TX) and Flint (MI), the North Sea flooding Dutch towns, a bomb over Hiroshima, the Cocoanut Grove fire, the 1952 Cairo riots, Hurricane Diane, the flooding of Eagle Pass (TX) and Piedras Negras (Mexico).