{"product_id":"only-plane-in-the-sky-the","title":"Only Plane in the Sky, The","description":"\"Incredibly evocative and compelling.\" - The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read.\" - The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting \u0026amp; was utterly gripped from start to finish.\" - Piers Morgan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most vivid portrait of 9\/11 I''ve ever read.\"- Mike Morell, former deputy director of the CIA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e** Updated 20th Anniversary edition with additional content **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Octopus Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57827474735439,"sku":"9781913183417","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781913183417_1-only-plane-in-the-sky-the.jpg?v=1780239962","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/only-plane-in-the-sky-the","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}