The Circus Fire : A True Story a true story /
by Stewart O'Nan.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Doubleday, 2000.
- xiii, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Cleveland, 1942 -- July 4, 1944 -- Principals -- July 5, 1944 -- July 6, 1944 -- Circus Day -- Showtime -- The Point of Origin -- Our Boys in Uniform -- Blue Sky -- Animal Acts -- The Bravest Girl I've Ever Seen -- This Ain't No Time to Faint, Lady -- Don't Look Back -- The Stars and Stripes Forever -- Ten More Bars! -- Death by Fire -- Alive, Alive, Alive -- Have You Seen Him? -- Bringing Out the Dead -- Triage -- Unexpected Guests -- Extra, Extra -- We Can't Reach You, Hartford -- A G.I. Party -- The Names of the Dead -- Bad Face -- Evidence -- In the Evening, Sun Is Going Down -- Go to Sleep -- Bad News -- Were You in Cleveland? -- All Through the Night -- And on Till Morning -- July 7, 1944 -- July 8, 1944 -- July 9, 1944 -- July 10, 1944 -- July 11-July 15, 1944 -- July 15-July 31, 1944 -- August-December, 1944 -- 1945 -- 1946-1950 -- 1950 -- 1950-1990 -- 1990-1991 -- 1991-1999.
Chronicles the disastrous Hartford circus fire of 1944, a tragedy that claimed 167 lives and changed the history of the city.
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