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Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing (2009)

by Arnie Bernstein(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0472033468 (ISBN13: 9780472033461)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

University of Michigan Press/Regional

review 1: An excellent and compassionate re-telling of the events surrounding the 1927 school bombing in Bath Michigan. As I now live in Bath Township, I have visited the Bath School Museum and the memorial at Couzens Park. It is not unusual to still hear residents refer to this tragic event. This book made the events of that horrific day more real to me with its focus on telling the stories of individuals who were killed or injured and survived. Truly heart wrenching at several points, I finished the book in tears for those who perished, those who survived, and those who remember.
review 2: This book is an incredible account of the first school bombing in our nation's history. Skillfully laying the groundwork of the events in the months and years leading up to this disa... morester, the author leads us through this all but forgotten tragedy, bringing it back to life with an almost minute by minute account of the the day of the disaster.The reader is introduced to the children and families of victims and survivors both, and is given an almost chilling look into the mind of Andrew Kehoe and what possibly triggered this event.This book had me riveted from beginning to end and I couldn't recommend it more. This fascinating account is a story that needed to be retold so that it's not forgotten. Loaded with first hand accounts, the reader has a front row seat to the shocking, numbing horror of that day, and can almost smell the dust and smoke and hear the screams of children and parents alike. While the author brings the reader into the horror if the day, he manages to keep it from becoming sensationalistic tabloid style writing. Kudo's to Bernstein for telling the complete story while maintaining respect for both the living and the dead of this event. less

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