167. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism




The Bookmonger with John J. Miller show

Summary: The explosion was so enormous, it killed 2,000 people and erupted into a mushroom cloud long before the Manhattan Project–and John U. Bacon writes about how and why it happened in The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism. In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Bacon describes the horrible events of […]