Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes

Brian Dillon

In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the marshes of Kent. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a brilliant piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that ...