The Halifax Explosion: Morning Was Nearly Erased

At 9:04 in the morning, Halifax stopped existing as it had been just seconds before. Few people know that the largest man-made explosion the world had ever witnessed didn't come from a battlefield in Europe, but from a quiet Canadian harbor, where two ships, a French munitions carrier and a Norwegian relief vessel, met in a narrow channel on an ordinary December morning in 1917. > The hidden truth behind that morning is not a story of villains or reckless men. It's a story of small, reasonable decisions, a delayed shipment of coal, a passing signal misread, a sixteen-year-old's wounded silence, that quietly stacked on top of each other until nothing could stop what came next. The Halifax Explosion: The Morning Halifax Was Nearly Erased takes you inside that harbor, aboard both ships, and into the streets of a city that had no warning it was about to lose nearly two thousand souls, thousands more to injury and blindness, and entire neighborhoods in a single instant, only to be buried under a blizzard the very next day. What you're about to discover will change how you see one of the most devastating, and least understood, disasters of the twentieth century. > Ready to step into the harbor moments before everything changed? Get your copy today and experience the morning Halifax was nearly erased.