The World’s Worst Disasters of the Twentieth Century

Description

This book vividly portrays two basic kinds of disasters. Firstly, the natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes, and secondly, the horrifying disasters caused by man's interaction with nature. Included in the second category are the London 'pea-souper' fogs which were responsible for thousands of deaths, the world's worst aircrash, and the Italian chemical explosion which released a lethal weed killer into the atmosphere, causing deaths and miscarriages years after the event.