Disaster !; Cascade Collection Of Famous Catastrophies, A

In an age when television relays news as it happens, this collection showcases the importance of the written word in capturing the events that change the world. This collection includes vivid eye-witness accounts of history’s best-known disasters from the Great Fire of London to the collapse of New York’s Twin Towers on ‘9/11’. The drama and tragedy of these terrible events has been recreated in this captivating anthology. Writing genres: diaries, memoirs, emails, reportage Text types: Information, Discussion, Recount Author Biography: Christopher Martin is Head of English at Linton Village College, Cambs. As well as the best-selling War Poems, he has published Classic Poems with Collins Educational. HarperCollins audiobooks based on these two titles are also available.