Great disasters : catastrophes of the twentieth century / edited by John Canning.

Col. ill. on lining papers.

Includes index.

Mont Pelee, 1902 -- The Iroquois Theatre, Chicago, 1903 -- San Francisco, 1906 -- The Titanic, 1912 -- Senghenydd, 1913 and the Gresford, 1934 -- Quintinshill, 1915 -- Tokyo, 1923 -- The R101, 1930 and the Hindenburg, 1937 -- The Morro Castle, 1934 -- HMS Thetis, 1939 and USS Thresher, 1963 -- The Cocoanut Grove, 1942 -- Naples Black Market Express, 1944 -- Burnden Park, 1946 and Ibrox Park, 1971 -- Tangiwai, 1953 -- Le Mans, 1955 -- Lewisham, 1957 -- Agadir, 1960 -- Mid-air collision, New York, 1960 -- The Vaiont Dam, 1963 -- The Mattmark Dam, 1965 -- Turkey, 1966 -- Aberfan, 1966 -- Florence, 1966 -- Farmington, Virginia, 1968 and Kellogg, Idaho, 1972 -- Peru, 1970 -- The Club Cinq-Sept, 1970 -- The Joelma Building, 1974 -- Turkish DC10, Ermenonville Forest, 1974 -- American Mid-West, 1974 -- Flixborough, 1974 -- Honduras, 1974 -- Darwin, 1974 -- Easter Airlines Boeing 727, Kennedy Airport, 1975 -- Guatemala, 1976