The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes

Brian Dillon

The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 February 2016
Pages
288
ISBN
9780241956762

The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes

Brian Dillon

The story of a terrible disaster on the Great War home front, in one of Britain’s most distinctive landscapes

In April 1916, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the marshes of Kent. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more.

In a brilliant piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity one of Britain’s strangest and most remarkable landscapes - where he has been a habitual explorer for many years. The Great Explosion is a profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry from one of our most brilliant writers.

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