The Halifax Explosion: The Shattering Story of the Greatest Man-Made Blast Before the Atomic Age: 3 (Forgotten Disasters) - Softcover

W. Cole, Nathan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798188290634

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

December 6, 1917. Two ships in a narrow harbor channel. One of them is a floating bomb.

On a clear wartime morning, the French freighter Mont-Blanc — loaded with over 2,500 tons of high explosives — collided with the Norwegian steamer Imo in the Narrows of Halifax Harbour. Twenty minutes later came the largest man-made explosion before the atomic age. Inside you'll find:

• The wartime port at full strain, and the chain of small decisions that put a bomb in its busiest channel
• The twenty minutes of fire — the crowds at their windows, and the telegraph operator who stayed at his key
• The blast, the tsunami, and the square mile of the city that vanished in a single second
• The blizzard that buried the ruins the next morning, and the Boston relief train that fought through it
• The inquiries and trials that ended with both ships at fault and no one punished — and the Christmas tree Nova Scotia still sends Boston every December

Drawn from archives, the Remembrance Book, and a century of scholarship, The Halifax Explosion tells Canada's forgotten catastrophe hour by documented hour.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798188290634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80