The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Kindle Edition
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“This is the history which we can't forget, the past incidents at its most immediate and moving…A marvellous and unforgettable book.” —Jon Meacham
“Remarkable…A valuable civic gift…On all the pages, a reader can encounter words that startle, and swing the reader's mood, or make him brokenhearted.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Visceral...I repeatedly cried…This book captures the emotions and unspooling horror of the day.” —NPR
“Had Maine turning every page with my heart in my throat…There have been loads written concerning 9/11, however nothing like this. I urge you to browse it.” —Katie Couric
The first comprehensive oral history of terrorist attack, 2001—a bird's-eye narrative plain-woven from the voices of USA citizens on the front lines of new national trauma.
Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been printed concerning 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, that copied the increase of Base, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government’s definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. However one perspective has been missing up to the current point—a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people that passed through that tough time.
Now, within the solely Plane in the Sky, triumph journalist and bestselling scholarly person, Garrett Graff tells the story of the day because it was lived—in the words of these United Nations citizens who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, recently unclassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly 5 hundred organisation, initial responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and relations, Graff paints the foremost vivid and human portrait of the terrorist attacks nonetheless.
