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The Day the World Ended The Mount Pelée Disaster May 7 1902 eBook Gordon Thomas Max MorganWitts

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The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned.

In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later.
 
So how did a town of thousands not heed the warnings of nature and local scientists, instead staying behind to perish in the onslaught of volcanic ash? Why did the newspapers publish articles assuring readers that the volcano was harmless? And why did the authorities refuse to allow the American Consul to contact Washington about the conditions? The answer lies in politics With an election on the horizon, the political leaders of Martinique ignored the welfare of their people in order to consolidate the votes they needed to win.
 
A gripping and informative book on the disastrous effects of a natural disaster coupled with corruption, The Day the World Ended reveals the story of a city engulfed in flames and the political leaders that chose to kill their people rather than give up their political power.

The Day the World Ended The Mount Pelée Disaster May 7 1902 eBook Gordon Thomas Max MorganWitts

Thomas and Witts give us the play by play account of Mount Pelee's devastating eruption on May 8th, 1902. They draw from existing eyewitness accounts, personal interviews, and surviving documents to recreate the horror of the tragedy, and create sympathetic portraits of the individuals caught up in the cataclysm of the devastated city of St. Pierre, once called the Paris of the West Indies. They take the standard position that Governor Louis Mouttet was suffering from some sort of mental instability, a narrative that was supported by survivor Edouard L'Heurre, the Governor's Secretary, that later authors such as Ernest Zebrowski refute by using scientific logic and deduction. Recreating the events of May, 1902 A thrilling, suspenseful real-life tragedy that claimed 30,000 lives, the eruption of Mount Pelee is a story that, like a sleeping volcano, refuses to lie dormant.

Product details File Size 5773 KB Print Length 308 pages Publisher Open Road Media (July 1, 2014) Publication Date July 1, 2014 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B00KQZY3N4

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The Day the World Ended The Mount Pelée Disaster May 7 1902 eBook Gordon Thomas Max MorganWitts Reviews

This is a very well written account of the devastating eruption of Mt Pelee on the island of Martinique. It catalogs the politics of the times there and how a variety of human and geographical variables contributed to such a poor response to this disaster. I had a paperback version which I decided to replace with a hardcover version.
This book was fantastic!! Since it happened over 100 years ago I was only vaguely aware of the story! This book bought in the human element to the disaster!! Very well written and full of information!!
A factual, well researched and well written book. And even though I know every page is true, it's still positively unbelievable!! The unbelievable power of nature, and the unbelievable reactions of the humans in its wake . . . I will never, ever forget this book!!
For fast-paced excitement, you cannot beat The Day the World Ended, which is a day-by-day account of the 1902 volcano, starting on the 2nd of May 1902 and ending on the 8th, that weaves into this time several strong human interest stories. It was written in 1969, 67 years after the eruption, when the authors could still find a few people close to those times to interview. I get the feeling it was based very much on interviews, which gives it an immediacy not as apparent in the other two books The Last Days of St. Pierre by Ernest Zebrowski and La Catastrophe by Alwyn Scarth. If you can only read one book, make it this one. it reads like a novel.
The cost of this approach is that we cannot be sure all the stories the authors heard were accurate, so we will never know if some of the stories told here, like the placing of troops to stop people leaving the town are true. But for a feeling of impending doom, this book creates the atmosphere perfectly.
When I started reading this book I had no idea about the history of Martinique and its volcano, Pele'e. It is a fascinating glimpse into the French Colonial West Indies of 1902.
I liked the author's day by day documentation of everyday life in St. Pierre, Martinique interspersed with the background stirrings of Pele'e.
This is the story of the actual people - heroes and fools-who lived in this Caribbean Paradise until it turned into hell.
Considering that more than 30,000 people died, and that it happened in the 20th century, you'd think Mt. Pelee's eruption would be more famous. Anyway, this book, one of the very few I know of that is entirely about this incident, is a fascinating look into the lives of people on a peaceful Caribbean island and a horrifying account of Pelee's awakening and the catastrophe that gave its name to a whole class of volcanic eruptions. I literally could not stop reading until I finished it.
The detailed descriptions make you feel as if you are there. You feel the frustrations of those trying to get the people in power to evacuate the town and marvel at the stubbornness, stupidity and self-centeredness of many of the politicians. Even though you know how it will end the story grips you and you want to keep reading. A warning for the squeamish - the injuries of people after the eruption are vividly described. An excellent recounting of an historical eruption.
Thomas and Witts give us the play by play account of Mount Pelee's devastating eruption on May 8th, 1902. They draw from existing eyewitness accounts, personal interviews, and surviving documents to recreate the horror of the tragedy, and create sympathetic portraits of the individuals caught up in the cataclysm of the devastated city of St. Pierre, once called the Paris of the West Indies. They take the standard position that Governor Louis Mouttet was suffering from some sort of mental instability, a narrative that was supported by survivor Edouard L'Heurre, the Governor's Secretary, that later authors such as Ernest Zebrowski refute by using scientific logic and deduction. Recreating the events of May, 1902 A thrilling, suspenseful real-life tragedy that claimed 30,000 lives, the eruption of Mount Pelee is a story that, like a sleeping volcano, refuses to lie dormant.