Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery
Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery is a 1989 Canadian non-fiction book by Janet Kitz describing the experience of the Halifax Explosion with an emphasis on the experience of ordinary people and families who became victims or survivors of the 1917 munitions explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The book has been reprinted several times. Janet Kitz went on to write two follow-up books: Survivors: Children of the Halifax Explosion (2000) which explored in more detail the stories of children who survived and December 1917: Revisiting the Halifax Explosion (2006) with Joan Payzant which looked at the impact of the explosion on the landscape of Halifax and Dartmouth.
A CBC television miniseries in 2004 Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion took the same title of the book, but the miniseries had no connection to the book or its author.
Editions
- 1989 1st Edition (Nimbus): ISBN 0-921054-30-0
- 2004 2nd Edition (Nimbus): ISBN 1-55109-490-8
- 2008 3rd Edition (Nimbus): ISBN 1-55109-670-6