THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." - The Washington Post"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." - The Times"Astonishing book about an astonishing,terrifying atrocity,relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish." - Piers Morgan"The most vivid portrait of 9/11 I've ever read."- Mike Morell,former deputy director of the CIA Updated 20th Anniversary edition with additional content The Only Plane in the Sky is the first comprehensive oral history of 9/11,deftly woven and told in the voices of ordinary people grappling with extraordinary events.It begins predawn,where we meet airport staff who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights. From a secret bunker beneath the White House,Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice watch for incoming planes on radar. At the Pentagon,officials feel a violent tremor as they come under attack. We hear the stories of the father and son working on separate floors in the North Tower; the firefighter who rushes there to search for his wife; the phone operator who keeps her promise to share a passenger's last words with his family; the chaplain who stays on the scene to perform last rites,losing his own life when the Twin Towers collapse.In New York,first responders confront a scene of unimaginable chaos. At the Pentagon generals break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try and rescue their colleagues.Drawing on never-before-published transcripts,declassified documents and interviews from nearly five hundred people,award-winning historian Garrett Graff skilfully tells the story of the day that changed all of our lives - as it was lived.The Only Plane in the Sky is a unique,profound,and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history,and all of our lives,20 years ago.
Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupISBN: 9781913183417Number of pages: 512Weight: 500 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 46 mm
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