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I liked the book, despite the flaws. I had never heard of the Halifax explosion before, so all the information was new to me. If there were mistakes, I didn't focus on them (I wouldn't have noticed them if not for reading the comments here), and while they may be regrettable and induce angst in historians and experts, for me they ultimately didn't detract from the main story of a disaster and its aftermath.
I didn't care about the relatively short shrift given to legal proceedings--it was a human error accident, and I don't know that there's a great lesson to be learned from the specifics of what happened in the harbor, or that's there's something that could have prevented it. That's where it differs greatly from Radium Girls, where accountability mattered, where the lessons learned could make future workers safer in the workplace.
It was disappointing to learn that the Christmas trees weren't sent every year since the disaster, as implied in the opening. But mostly I thought it was an interesting and uplifting story of people coming together to deal with tragedy.
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