Poisonous Inferno: World War II Tragedy at Bari Harbor
Written by George Southern
Published in 2002
The terrible event of 2 December 1943 in the
Italian port of Bari has been shrouded in secrecy and subject to
official censorship. On that night an Allied convoy of twenty-one ships
was bombed by the Luftwaffe as its volatile cargo was being unloaded.
The overcrowded harbour was soon a complete inferno. But the rescued and
the rescuers did not know that they were immersed in a deadly cocktail
of oil and liquid mustard gas. This is the story of that fatal night and
its terrible lingering aftermath.
The author was a Royal Navy gunlayer on the destroyer HMS Zetland and this is the only account published by a survivor.
Hardcover First Edition with dust jacket. 194 pages. Few photographs. Fully Indexed.
Very Good Condition. Dust jacket exhibits minor edge/shelf wear. All pages are tightly bound. Pages are free from tears, stains and stray marks.
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