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Thomas Dunne Books (1998), Edition: Thomas Dunne Books, 297 pages
Description
A spectacular, fully illustrated anthology of first-person accounts of disaster - from Thucydides to CNN, from Pompeii to the Holocaust.
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This collection of essays documents historic events that approached apocaplyptic proportions. From the Roman disaster at Pompei to the twentieth century the events described seemed to be the end of the world to contemporary observers. In retrospect they provide a record of the way humans have
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English
Physical description
297 p.; 9.75 inches
ISBN
0312192649 / 9780312192648
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FB First-person accounts of disasters, from 3000 BC to modern times.