World Disasters Books
Discusses the disastrous drought in the United States during the 1930s which made a "dust bowl" out of a part of the Great Plains, causing great hardship to farmers
Discusses the events leading to and following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, including scientific, historical, political, and cultural contexts.
Examines the Chernobyl nuclear accident in its historical, cultural, political, and human contexts
On August 26, 1883 the people on the Javan and Sumatran coasts were surprised and shocked by the violent eruption of the three cones of the volcano on the island of Krakatoa. The volcanoes exploded in a violent eruption, finally collapsing into the sea.
Examines the historical, economic, scientific, and human factors involved in the great famine in Ireland in the nineteenth century
Describes the Crusade in 1212 in which hundreds of children traveling from France and Germany to the Holy Land met an unfortunate fate.