The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902

The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902

The spectacular story of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the Western Hemisphere: the 1902 volcano that destroyed St Pierre on the island of Martinique. This book reveals the story of a ci…

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