In the skies above Pennsylvania, civilians aboard United Flight 93 make the ultimate sacrifice in their place.
Aboard the small number of unarmed fighter jets in the air, pilots make a pact to fly into a hijacked airliner if necessary to bring it down. From a secret bunker underneath the White House, officials watch for incoming planes on radar. In New York City, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable horror at the Twin Towers. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, Graff paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet.īeginning in the predawn hours of airports in the Northeast, we meet the ticket agents who unknowingly usher terrorists onto their flights, and the flight attendants inside the hijacked planes. Now, in The Only Plane in the Sky, award-winning journalist and bestselling historian Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived-in the words of those who lived it. But one perspective has been missing up to this point-a 360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, the government’s definitive factual retrospective of the attacks. The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001-a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma. “Visceral.I repeatedly cried…This book captures the emotions and unspooling horror of the day.” -NPR 2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!Ģ020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!Īudio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.
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