Summary
By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, [the author] constructs a ... narrative that recreates the events.... And finally, he reveals how, even in a time of deepest despair, the human spirit triumphed, as the people... Full description
- A city ready to burn
- "Everything went wrong!"
- "The dogs of hell were upon the housetops"
- "A surging ocean of flame"
- "Chicago is in flames"
- "The ghost of Chicago"
- Myth and reality.