Explores the causes and effects of 35 recent man-made disasters and their related casualties. Failures in aircraft, automobiles, bridges, buildings, chemical plants, dams and ships are covered, including such disasters as the Bhopal tragedy and the MGM Grand Hotel fire.
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This review is from: Breakdown: Deadly Technological Disasters (Paperback)
Breakdown looks at some of the deadliest technological disasters of the twentieth century, from the sinking of the Titanic to the crash of an El Al 747 in Holland eighty years later. The authors examine the causes of each accident, looking for the most important factors in each case. Sadly, I felt this book was a major dissapointment. The chapters all read like boring bureaucratic reports, and the action never came alive. Perhaps worst of all, the book failed where it should have been strongest, in the area of analysis. The basic causes of each disaster were given, but never in any depth or detail. A reference section at the end of each chapter was of little help as well. Readers were referred to magazine articles again and again, even with disasters as far back as the Hindenburg! Breakdown is a useful book only as a quick reference source. If one wants anything more, this book should be left alone.
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