Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster - Couverture souple

Gabrielan, Randall

 
9781609495176: Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster

Synopsis

While World War I raged in Europe, America scrambled to supply the Allies with ammunition, and several munitions plants were constructed near the Jersey Shore. The hastily built plants hummed with hardly a mishap until the fateful night of October 4, 1918, when a series of explosions killed one hundred people. Firemen and other volunteers were powerless to stop the destruction as it devastated the Morgan-South Amboy area and terrified the surrounding region. Strangely, though, this woeful disaster has been forgotten by history. New Jersey historian Randall Gabrielan re-creates this terrifying night and its aftermath in the context of Middlesex County's role in the Great War.

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À propos de l?auteur

Randall Gabrielan is president of the Middletown Township Historical Society and that town's appointed historian. He is also executive director of the Monmouth County Historical Commission, and that county's historian. He is a long-serving trustee of the Middletown Library.

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9781540231253: Explosion at Morgan: The World War I Middlesex Munitions Disaster

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ISBN 10 :  1540231259 ISBN 13 :  9781540231253
Editeur : History Press Library Editions, 2012
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