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Paperback The Cocoanut Grove Fire Book

ISBN: 1889833886

ISBN13: 9781889833880

The Cocoanut Grove Fire

A gripping narrative of the worst nightclub fire in American history, which killed 492 people in World War II Boston.

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Format: Hardcover

Condition: Good

$70.49
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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Unforgettable tragedy

I grew up hearing my parents talk about the Cocoanut Grove fire but never knew the whole story until I discovered this book. The real facts of how the fire started will never be known but the causes have been narrowed down and, as with so many tragedies, medical breakthroughs in burn treatment and building safety have resulted from the disaster. This book draws all the known facts together without speculation. It's an intense,...

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Rated 5 stars
The Cocoanut Grove Fire ( New England Remembers )

Book came in the time frame and in the condition specified.

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Rated 5 stars
Very well done

Excellent research presented in a very readable format. It's not too long, but still has a lot of content. Well done!

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Rated 5 stars
Scary, Hard To Believe It Could Happen, But History Repeats Itself.

Like the author's other book "Boston On Fire," this story is almost impossible to put down once you start reading it. When you read the details of that tragic nightclub fire, it's difficult to believe it could even happen, much less happen so fast that hundreds were killed. But the recent fire at the Station Night Club in Rhode Island is so similar it's scary. Everyone likes to think they would figure out a way to escape such...

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Rated 5 stars
An update on a tragic story

I recently read Schorow's entry in the New England Remembers series, and it is a haunting book. Schorow has great details; a reporter, she used her skills to update a story that happened in 1942. This book is especially interesting to those who wondered what happened to the main characters after 1959, when Paul Benzaquin's book Holocaust! on the same subject was published.

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