Book description: "Category 5: The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane" by Thomas Neil Knowles, offers a gripping account of the devastating 1935 storm that struck the Florida Keys, the first recorded Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States. The book reconstructs the events of the hurricane, which killed over four hundred people—including more than two hundred World War I veterans—by combining survivor interviews, government records, and media accounts.
Set during the Great Depression, the author details life in the Keys at the time, the vulnerabilities of the veteran workforce, and the state of weather forecasting, highlighting the tragic consequences and failures in evacuation and disaster response.
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