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PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - On the morning of September 6, 1869, the men and boys who descended into the Avondale Mine expected another day in Pennsylvania's anthracite dark. Then the whistle split the Wyoming Valley, and families began running toward a scene no one could yet comprehend: fire at the shaft, smoke pouring upward, and 110 workers trapped below with no second way out. How could a blaze in open daylight become one of America's deadliest mining disasters The Avondale Mine re-creates the catastrophe in relentless, scene-driven detail: the patch-town world built on coal, the single-shaft design that turned efficiency into a death sentence, the desperate fight above ground as rescuers battled flames and time, and the terrible silence below as air failed in the dark. Then the story widens, following grief into funerals, the coroner's inquest, public fury, and the labor movement that would carry Avondale's memory into the age of John Siney and the Molly Maguires.Vivid, scrupulously grounded, and driven by the lives of the people who paid the price, this is more than the story of a fire. It is the story of how one disaster forced Americans to ask what industry owed its workers-and what happens when profit builds a mine with no back door. Once you enter Avondale, you will not easily forget it.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - On the evening of November 1, 1918, Brooklyn commuters packed into a crowded rush-hour train and disappeared into a new tunnel beneath Malbone Street. Seconds later, wood splintered, steel screamed, and a routine ride home became the deadliest subway crash in New York City history. How did an ordinary nickel fare end in a darkness so violent that 93 people never came back out The Malbone Street Disaster tells this true story as it was lived: by riders who trusted the system, by transit workers pushed to the breaking point, and by Edward Luciano, the young BRT dispatcher placed at the controls of a train he was not prepared to run. Against the tense backdrop of wartime Brooklyn, influenza, and a strike that crippled the lines, the book follows the fatal chain of decisions that turned delay into panic, panic into speed, and speed into catastrophe.Vivid, deeply researched, and driven by the human stakes in every moment, this is narrative nonfiction with the pace of a thriller and the discipline of history. It is the story of a crash, a city's grief, and a warning that still feels urgent wherever ordinary people place their lives in the hands of unseen systems. Once you enter the tunnel, you won't look away.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. The Avondale Mine | The 1869 Pennsylvania Shaft Fire That Entombed 110 Miners | Fletcher J. Alderton | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | NobleTrex Press | EAN 9798896654636 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. The Malbone Street Disaster | The 1918 Brooklyn Subway Crash That Killed 93 New Yorkers | Fletcher J. Alderton | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | NobleTrex Press | EAN 9798896654735 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …