Blizzard of Glass
The Halifax Explosion of 1917
Published on 23. September 2025
160 pages
978-1-4668-0510-1 (ISBN)
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On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts. Fascinating, edge-of-your-seat storytelling based on original source material conveys this harrowing account of tragedy and recovery. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.
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11/2011
Henry Holt & Company
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Sally Walker is the author of
Written in
Bone,
Fossil Fish Found Alive, and
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine, which was awarded a Sibert Medal. She lives in Illinois.
