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“Before there was the Perfect Storm, there was the Great Hurricane of 1938. A riveting and wonderfully written account.” —Nathaniel Philbrick
On the evening of September 21, 1938, information on the radio was filled with the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no point out of any extreme climate. By the time oceanfront residents observed an ominous colour within the sky, it was too late to flee. In an age earlier than warning programs and the ubiquity of tv, this unprecedented storm caught the Northeast off guard, obliterated coastal communities on Long Island and in New England, and killed practically seven hundred individuals.
The Great Hurricane, 1938
is a spellbinding hour-by-hour reconstruction of probably the most harmful and highly effective storms ever to hit the United States. With riveting element, Burns weaves collectively numerous private tales of family members misplaced and lives modified perpetually—from these of the Moore household, washed to sea on a raft previously their attic ground, to Katharine Hepburn, holed up in her Connecticut mansion, watching her automobile take to the air like a little bit of paper. “A very good book.” —
The Washington Post
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