I finished reading a book I was reading as research for a story. It's called Nightmare in Bari: The World War II Liberty Ship Poison Disaster and Coverup by Gerald Reminick. The title kind of says it all... it's about this chemical warfare disaster that happened in Bari, Italy in 1943. It was known as “Little Pearl Harbor.” There is no official death toll but was over two thousand and many more were injured, and yet few have heard about it. I stumbled across some information about it on the Internet and then had to do an interlibrary loan to get the book. Not exactly light, pleasurable reading, nor something I can recommend, unless you're into World War II history or chemical warfare disasters.
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