Kurzman, Dan

Draws from research and eyewitness accounts to reexamine the earthquake that struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906, measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale,and to discuss the fires, plagues, crimes, and other horrors that added to the devastation.

Discusses the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan by telling the stories of the key Americans and Japanese in the drama.

Chronicles the events surrounding the sinking of the USAT "Dorchester" off Greenland on February 3, 1943, with a focus on the actions of four chaplains, who tried to bring peace to the enlisted men on board in their final moments.

An account of the twenty-eight day battle in 1943 between the poorly armed Jews of the Warsaw ghetto and the Nazi forces equipped with artillery, tanks, flamethrowers and airplanes.