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Five past midnight in Bhopal
\"One of the premier historians of our time, Dominique Lapierre is the author of such stirring classics as Is Paris Burning? and The City of Joy. Famed for uncovering the humanity in historic events, he here joins forces with acclaimed writer Javier Moro. Together they investigate and chronicle each fateful moment counting down to what happened.\" \"Union Carbide was a huge American corporation whose leaders had only the best intentions. In New York they invented a miracle insecticide. In ancient Bhopal, they formulated the lethal gas needed to produce it and built a giant plant to process it.\" \"But at five past midnight on December 3, 1984, toxic gas leaked out of a pesticide tank. By one-thirty geysers were spitting poison into the night wind. The apocalypse had begun. Banks of deadly fog filled nearby slums. Lungs burst. Corneas burned. Death would strike in seconds and no one was prepared: neither the bride at her wedding banquet nor the peasants who came to Bhopal for a better life, nor the shoemaker rousing his neighbors to flee their huts nor the Scottish nun risking all to rescue lost children. By night's end, over half a million Bhopalis were drowning in pain and chaos, and between 16,000 and 30,000 would die in the worst industrial disaster in history.\"--Jacket.
A Rainbow in the Night
\"South Africa's tragic apartheid history is vividly recounted...[Lapierre] is adept at infusing it with drama aplenty.\" -- Los Angeles Times In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa.Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape.
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PARIS BURNING? NO, LIBERATED
For the three and a half million inhabitants of Paris, it was the most extraordinary of all miracles: This horrible war, which had caused so many deaths and ruins, had spared their city. As the final hour of the liberation was approaching, Paris survived unscathed by the most destructive war in history. To fight against the lack of food, the city had become one big country village which woke up each morning to the crowing of roosters. They called out the dawn from bathtubs, broom closets, rooftop pens, garrets, spare rooms. Like many of my school friends, I raised rabbits on our apartment's balcony.
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