"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 thereI 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 flightsFrom 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 chaosAt 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.

Format Häftad Omfång 512 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Octopus Publishing Group Utgivningsdatum 2021-07-01 ISBN 9781913183417