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Halifax Explosion Books
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Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 2,083 ratings — published 2011
When the World Fell Silent (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 29,744 ratings — published 2024
Too Many to Mourn (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 49 ratings — published 1998
Barometer Rising (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 1,802 ratings — published 1941
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,471 ratings — published 2017
The Birth House (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 46,567 ratings — published 2006
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,211 ratings — published 2005
The Blind Mechanic (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 85 ratings — published 2018
The Blue Tattoo (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 72 ratings — published 2014
Who's a Scaredy-Cat! (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 16 ratings — published 2005
The Woman Reporter and the Halifax Explosion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Warm Hands of Ghosts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 32,166 ratings — published 2024
Tides of Honour (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,569 ratings — published 2015
Explosion in Halifax Harbour, 1917 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 33 ratings — published
The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 343 ratings — published 2017
Irish Chain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 194 ratings — published 2002
Exploded Identity: A Saga of the Halifax Explosion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2005
Bearing Witness: Journalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published
These Four Walls (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.31 — 55 ratings — published 2009
Burden of Desire (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 405 ratings — published 1992
The Town That Died: A Chronicle of the Halifax Explosion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 153 ratings — published 1967
Black Snow: A Story of Love and Destruction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 59 ratings — published 2009
Disasters of Atlantic Canada: Stories of Courage and Chaos
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avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published 2007
The Halifax Disaster : December 6, 1917 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.36 — 14 ratings — published 1987
Too Many to Mourn: One Family's Tragedy in the Halifax Explosion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published
“Of the sixty-six members of the Jackson family who were in the Richmond area the morning of December 6th, 1917, forty-six were killed. Of the surviving twenty, the majority were seriously injured. This was the largest loss of life suffered by one family group in the Halifax Explosion.
The family of Joseph and Mary Hinch sustained the largest loss of life for a single family unit. Mary (Jackson) Hinch was severely injured and buried under debris for twenty-four hours. Her husband and all ten of their children were killed.”
― Too Many to Mourn
The family of Joseph and Mary Hinch sustained the largest loss of life for a single family unit. Mary (Jackson) Hinch was severely injured and buried under debris for twenty-four hours. Her husband and all ten of their children were killed.”
― Too Many to Mourn
“Fewer than eight seconds after the blast more than a thousand were dead. In the next days a thousand more would die. By far the largest percentage of those who died were children.”
― Too Many to Mourn
― Too Many to Mourn
