The San Francisco Earthquake :: 1971 HB w/ DJ :: FREE Shipping

• Hardback book with Dust Jacket by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts
• Over 315 pages with illustrations
• STEIN AND DAY Publishers
• Copyright © 1971 by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts

" " The further you are from the last big earthquake, the nearer you are to the next"
- Perry Byerly, Department of Seismology, University of California.

The last big earthquake in the United States came at 5:13 A.M. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco.
No one knows when the next, even more devastating, earthquake will come to San Francisco, but it will come.

Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have written a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of the 1906 earthquake and a dramatic prediction - based on expert opinion - of the next one. "

The authors use never-before-published eyewitness reports and previously ignored documents of the insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross to tear away the myths surrounding the holocaust.
They expose the real villains and heroes, show how the political powers tried to conceal the amount of damage caused by the earthquake, reveal that the fire was spread by the inexperienced dynamite squads trying to contain it, and tell how the military executed people without trial.
The reader joins the great Italian tenor, Caruso, the founder of the Bank of America, Giannini, the writer-adventurer, Jack London, the temperamental star, John Barrymore, and the thousands of less famous in their struggle for survival.

The authors ask unsettling questions.
How prepared is the city for the coming catastrophe ?
Why is there, for instance, only one fire boat in the San Francisco Bay ?
Why does the subway tunnel through the San Andreas fault ?
Why have new skyscrapers been built in the part most likely to go ? "

Contents includes:

"

TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1906

Noon to 6 P.M.
1. Tension Backstage
6 P.M. to Midnight
2. Personal Grounds

Midnight to 5 A.M.
3. An Excited Horse
5 A.M. to 5:12:59
4. Time Hung Poised
5:13 to 5:30 A.M.
5. The Big Rip
6. A Fatal Fall
5:30 A.M. to 12:30 P.M.
7. Polishing Coffin Handles
8. A Tumult of Noise
9. Appeal for Dynamite
10. A Shared Drink
12:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.
11. Last Evidence of Life
12. Explosives in Inexperienced Hands
6:30 P.M. to Midnight
13. Hemmed in by Flames
14. Eager Hands

Midnight to 6 A.M.
15. Foreign Affairs
16. A Row of Guns
6 A.M. to Noon
17. Harsher Tones
18. Magical Powers
Noon to 6 P.M.
19. Exodus on Market
20. A Passport Portrait
6 P.M. to Midnight
21. The Last Defense Breached

Midnight to 6 A.M.
22. Rising Wind
6 A.M. to Noon
23. Fulfilling a Vow
Noon to 6 P.M.
24. The Blind Gunner
6 P.M. to Midnight
25. Reunion

26. Flickering Flames

27. An Inconvenient Interruption
28. Trials and Tribulations

29. Encore

SPECIAL THANKS
CORRESPONDENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX "

This book is in very good condition with minor edgewear to the cover.
The dust jacket has some wear and tear to the edges and is yellowed on the inside.
No torn or ripped pages.
No other markings or writing.

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