Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told Seven Harrowing Tales

Brings together the most interesting, readable, & compassionate of events so catastrophic they will never be forgotten. They run the gamut from shipwrecks to industrial catastrophe. Disasters described include: the sinkings of the Titanic & the Lusitania; the Johnstown, PA flood; the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens; the destruction of Galveston, TX by the deadliest hurricane in Amer. history; the B-25 bomber crash into the Empire State Bldg.; the sinking of the U.S.S. IndianapolisÓ; the runway collision between Pan Am & KLM 747s that resulted in 578 deaths; the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800; the Bhopal, India toxic chemical leak, which killed 2,500; the Space Shuttle ChallengerÓ tragedy; the Chicago Orphanage fire; the N.Y. Triangle fire; & more.Underwood, Lamar is the author of 'Greatest Disaster Stories Ever Told Seven Harrowing Tales', published 2002 under ISBN 9780756787820 and ISBN 0756787823.