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Disaster Stories

There have been a lot of disaster stories read, and most have been recommended by Brother Strokosch, who is otherwise a mild-mannered, peaceful guy. Indeed, the genre so fascinates him that there have even been a number of independent study books read in his spare time.


47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster (2004)
by O. Henry Mace

Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds - Survival in the Andes (2013)
by David Roberts


Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (2013)
by David Roberts


The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (1998)
by Malcolm MacPherson


Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy (2016)
by Heather Ann Thompson


Chicago’s Great Fire (2020)

by Carl S. Smith


The Children’s Blizzard (2004) [read review]
by David Laskin


The Circus Fire: A True Story (2000)
by Stewart O’Nan


Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (2005)
by Laura M. MacDonald


Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (2003)
by Stephen Puleo


Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)
by Erik Larson


The Devil's Highway: A True Story (2005)
by Luis Alberto Urrea


Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic (1995)
by George W. Hilton


Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
by Alfred Lansing


F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century (2007)
by Mark Levine


Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire (1999)
by John MacLean


Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (2002)
by Denise Gess and William Lutz


Fort Dearborn (2007)
by Jerry Crimmins


The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (2006)
by Steven Johnson


Hostile Waters (1997)
by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin & Alan White


How the Battleship Maine was Destroyed (1976)
by Hyman George Rickover


The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and his City (2010)

by Stephen Dando-Collins


Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man (2019)
by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic


In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of Whaleship Essex (2000)
by Nathaniel Philbrick


In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014)
by Hampton Sides


Isaac’s Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999)
by Erik Larson


Into the Wild (1998)
by Jon Krakauer


The Johnstown Flood (1968)
by David McCullough


Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (2012)
by John Barylick


Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2018)
by David Grann


The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives (2002)
by Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.


Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011)
by Mitchell Zuckoff


The Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1998)
by John Barry


San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires (2005)
by Dennis Smith


Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2004)
by Robert Kurson


The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (2018)
by Ben Macintyre


Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike (2021)
by Brian Castner


The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History (1999)
by Peter Maas


Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 (2003)
by Anthony P. Hatch


Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1997)
by John Ehle


Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003)
by David von Drehle


Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre (2019)
by Randy Krehbiel


Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinkley Firestorm of 1894 (2006)

by Daniel James Brown


The White Cascade: The Greatest Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (2007)
by Gary Krist


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006)
by Timothy Egan


Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos (2010)
by Judy Pasternak


Independent Study Books


The Cocoanut Grove Fire (2005) [read review]
by Stephanie Schorow


Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (1997)
by Jon Krakauer


Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999)
by Erik Larson


The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997)
by Sebastian Junger

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