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San Francisco Is Burning The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
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San Francisco Is Burning The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires Paperback - 2006

by Smith, Dennis

Killing hundreds and leaving a city in ruins, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 stands as one of the greatest natural disasters in American history. But the aftermath of the quake the fires that raged across the city for days and claimed the lives of thousands more was an all too human disaster whose story has remained largely untold. Until now.

Employing the same vivid prose and storytelling skill that made his Report from Ground Zero a national bestseller, Dennis Smith reconstructs those harrowing days from the perspective of the people who lived through them. Smith draws on hundreds of individual accounts and official documents to unearth the true story of the fires from the corrupt officials who left the city woefully unprepared for disaster, to the militia officers who enforced martial law with deadly force, to the individual heroes who battled the blaze and saved untold lives. San Francisco Is Burning is a thrilling disaster tale that brings a lost chapter of history back to riveting life.


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John Pond had the letter in his hand as he knocked softly on the door.

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  • Title San Francisco Is Burning The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
  • Author Smith, Dennis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 304
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Plume, New York
  • Date August 29, 2006
  • ISBN 9780452287594
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