With over 80 books in our library, this year we're taking some time every week to highlight one of the books on the Eckhartz bookshelf. This week's book is Death of the Angels by Alex Burkholder. We released this book on the 60th anniversary of the tragic fire the book is about.
In “Death of the Angels” we see the stories, many for the first time, of students who were lucky to survive one of the nation’s most deadly school fires. Their words, along with those of heroic firemen and others, were recorded more than forty years ago.
A total of ninety-two students and three nuns died as a result of the fire that frigid day December 1st, 1958 at Our Lady of the Angels School on Chicago’s West Side. A fire that occurred only minutes before the end of the school day.
Now sixty-years since the tragic blaze, the author takes a fresh look at who was responsible for the deaths and whether justice was served. Also the author reports new revelations regarding the fire.
