I'm still reading, but I made the mistake of following the comments here. One thing that puzzles me about the reactions: Where are the "fabrications" and "howlers," and how is it possible to spot them without having read other books about the event? What am I missing?
I remain interested in the book--my not being finished isn't due to a reluctance to keep reading, but to outside events--but the comments here made me wonder if my critical faculties aren't working as they should. So I looked up a number of editorial reviews, none of which seemed to have any major problems with with book. Some of those reviews paired the Bacon book with another centennial-timed release,
The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster by Ken Cuthbertson, and give the latter book a slight edge, but I didn't find any negative reviews for Bacon's book.