The Only Plane in the Sky

Incredibly evocative and compelling. - The Washington Post The most moving and chilling oral history you will read. - The Times Astonishing. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish. - Piers Morgan** Updated 25th 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...

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