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The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 on the 20th Anniversary

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By (author): Garrett M. Graff

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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 411g
  • Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jul 2021
  • Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913183417

About Garrett M. Graff

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff has spent nearly two decades covering politics technology and national security and is now recognized as one of America's most prolific and wide-ranging journalists and historians. He is the former editor of POLITICO Magazine a regular writer for publications from Rolling Stone to Esquire to the Washington Post a contributor to WIRED and CNN and a regular voice and analyst on NPR PBS NewsHour and the History Channel. He is the author of a half-dozen award-winning books including the international bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11.

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