The San Francisco Earthquake

1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. HISTORY. US Fair No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cracking on spine gutter. Ex-owner's name inside front cover. Ex-wear all around. Pages are clean and binding tight. Very good reading copy. About the book: This is the story of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906: It contains never before published documents of the insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross to tear away the myths and expose the real villains and heroes The last big earthquake in the United States came at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. No one knows when the next, even more devastating earthquake will come to San Francisco, but one will come. Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have written a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of the 1906 earthquake and dramatic prediction based on expert opinion of the next one. The authors use never-before-published eyewitness reports and previously ignored documents of the insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross to tear away the myths surrounding the holocaust. They expose the real villains and heroes, show how the political powers tried to conceal the amount of damage caused by the earthquake, reveal that the fire was spread by the inexperienced.