The Great Hurricane: 1938 (Paperback)

from Juva

The fascinating and horrific story of the tragic hurricane of 1938 that struck land on Long Island at 2:00 in the afternoon on September 21st. Weather reporting was in its infant stages so the hurricane came upon the inhabitants of New England totally unawares. Without warnings many people were d...

from Sandydog1

Journalistic account (sometimes maybe slipping into narrative nonfiction) based on interviews with "LI", RI and CT survivors. The reader really gets the awareness of how these coastal folks had absolutely no warning whatsoever.

from book58lover

It is difficult to recreate a tragedy when the participants have all died, after all it was nearly 80 years ago. But the author does an admirable job of it. The descriptions reminded me of reading Isaac's Storm. However there were differences. New England was coming out of the Great Depression an...

from auntieknickers

Not long ago here in Maine we were bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Irene. She scorned us, deciding to pay her watery attentions to Vermont and New Hampshire instead. In fear of Irene, the Mayor of New York even closed down the subways. People who think this was all silliness ought to read th...

from Carolee888

The author must have spent so much time researching this horrible hurricane. It is tragedy that 700 people died because no one believed that a hurricane would strike that area of the Northeast. For comparison, the narrator tells that hurricane Andrew killed 20 people. People also had did not have...