Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire That Helped Forge the Path to World War II by Joshua Hammer

Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire That Helped Forge the Path to World War II

Joshua Hammer

336 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative sad tense slow-paced
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The story of the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century: the earthquakes, fires, and tsunamis of September 1923 that destroyed Yokohama and most of Tokyo and killed 140,000 people during two days of horror. Piecing together a minute-by-mi...

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