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Roar Of The Heavens: Surviving Camille, the Worst Storm in American

With an hour-by-hour account—told by survivors—of 1969's Hurricane Camille, this book puts a human face on one of the nation's worst natural disasters. 16-page photo insert.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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