City on Fire: The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle

by Bill Minutaglio

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First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of the most catastrophic disasters in American history.

  • ISBN10 0292761058
  • ISBN13 9780292761056
  • Publish Date 15 February 2014 (first published 1 January 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Texas Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English