City on Fire : : The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle / / Bill Minutaglio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Minutaglio, Bill,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 p.) :; 12 b&w photos
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Introduction --; TEXAS CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT --; The Priest --; The Voyage --; The Ship --; The Company --; The Mayor --; The Warning --; The People --; The First Words from Texas City --; The Scientist --; The City --; The Second Explosion --; The President --; The Gangster --; The Unknown Dead --; "United States of America, Defendant" --; The Trial --; "By Direction of the President of the United States" --; The King Can Do No Wrong --; "Speak Freely" --; "Pleased to Advise" --; Good People --; Acknowledgments
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292761049; 9783110745337
• DOI: 10.7560/759237
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bill Minutaglio.

First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of the most catastrophic disasters in American history.