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Non-Fiction

FSogol

(47,447 posts) Mon Oct 29, 2012, 09:41 AM Oct 2012

My storm is worse than yours [View all]

Just kidding. Attached is a reading list of great disasters:

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America‎. by Jim Murphy
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry

Please rec some more.

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My storm is worse than yours [View all] FSogol Oct 2012 OP

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Neoma Oct 2012 #1

The Children's Blizzard SheilaT Oct 2012 #2

"The Town that Died" kag Jan 2013 #3

The Great Mortality by John Kelly. SheilaT Jan 2013 #4

Have you read, "The Great Shame" by Thomas Keneally? FSogol Jan 2013 #5

No, I haven't. SheilaT Jan 2013 #6