The Cocoanut Grove Fire

by Stephanie Schorow, Robert J Allison (Editor)

Overview

A gripping narrative of the worst nightclub fire in American history, which killed 492 people in World War II Boston.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781889833880
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	03/18/2005
Series:	New England Remembers
Pages:	84
Sales rank:	730,136
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Robert J. Allison is chairman of the history department of Suffolk Universityin Boston and teaches courses in American Constitutional history and the history of Boston at Harvard Extension School. He lives in South Boston and summers in Provincetown on Cape Cod.


Stephanie Schorow is a former reporter for the Boston Herald and a freelance writer focusing on topics of regional and national interest. She is the author of Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston and The Cocoanut Grove Fire. She lives in Medford, Massachusetts.