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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9781416559252
ISBN: 1416559256
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Free Press
Sales Rank: 11679
Studio: Free Press
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On the azure blue morning of 9/11 the skies were pronounced 'severe clear,' in the parlance of airline pilots; a gorgeous day for flying. Nearly 5,000 flights were cruising the skies over America when FAA Operations Manager Ben Sliney arrived at the Command Center for his first day on that job. He could never have anticipated the historic drama that was about to unfold as Americans who found themselves on the front lines of a totally unprecedented attack on our homeland sprang into action to defend our country and save lives.
In this gripping moment-to-moment narrative, based on groundbreaking reporting, Lynn Spencer brings the inspiring true drama of their unflinching and heroic response vividly to life for the first time, taking us right inside the airliner cockpits and control towers, the fighter jets and the military battle cabs. She makes vital corrections to the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report, and reveals many startling, utterly unknown elements of the story.
As a commercial pilot herself, for whom the attacks hit terribly close to home, she knew that the true scope and nature of the response so brilliantly improvised that morning by those in the thick of the action -- with so little guidance from those at the highest levels -- had not at all been captured by the news coverage or the 9/11 Commission. To get to the truth, she went on a three-year quest, interviewing hundreds of key players, listening to untold hours of tapes and pouring through voluminous transcripts to re-create each heart-stopping moment as it happened through their eyes and in their words as the drama unfolded.
From the shocking moment at 7:59 a.m. that American 11 fails to respond to a controller's call, until the last commercial flight has safely landed and military jets rule the skies, all Americans will find themselves deeply moved and amazed by the grace and fierce determination of these steely men and women as they draw on all of their exquisite training to grasp, through the fog of war, what is happening, put their lives on the line, and mount an astonishing response.
This beautifully crafted and deeply affecting account of the full story of their courageous actions is a vital addition to the country's understanding of a day that has forever changed our nation.
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Rating:  - touching history
I found this book to be extremely interesting, fascinating.Fills us in on unpublished information that I did not know.It is a must read for people who study 9/11.It gives one hope that there are actually perople who operate outside of the box in an emergency situation.
Rating:  - Phenominal!
This is a must-read for those who want to know how that awful day unfolded. Gut-wrenching and spellbinding, you'll find yourself shouting warnings to the book's characters in a fruitless effort to avoid the obvious outcome. If you can possibly manage to get through this book in more than one sitting then you have nerves of steel.
I gave it only 4 stars simply because of the complex language of aviation that is used through-out the book. It makes sense because that is the subject and ... Read More
Rating:  - Articulate but confusing tale of a confusing day
This book does a good job of telling the basic story of the confusion that reigned in the air on 9/11.It does a great job of telling how air traffic controllers had no real idea of which planes were hijacked and which ones were not.It also is very interesting to read the steps that were considered and sometimes taken by long haul flights over the Pacific to forestall any takeovers of their plans. The aspects dealing with Canadian flights is also very interesting to read.
The book is ... Read More
Rating: - Air Traffic Controllers
Touching History is a suspenseful book. The author, Lynn Spencer, writes mostly from the perspective of the air traffic controllers. She spends many hours interviewing the controllers, and summarizing the many volumes of The 9/11 Commission Reports, to write her detailed book. I learned many details about 9/11, and fortunately the book was nonpartisan,as no one was blamed for the tragic events of that day.
The first plane hijacked is American Airlines Flight 11. It is off their radar screen ... Read More
Rating:  - This book is not truthful
If you check out the op-ed article in the New York Times of 9-14-08, you can read a carefully written article about this book, and how untrue accounts are being passed off as truth. It is shameful that the facts, as carefully established by the 9-11 commission, are ignored in the frenzy to sell a book with sensationalism. Self serving accounts by politicians and military flacks can not change the fact that we were not prepared for this attack, and except for the firefighters in New York, and the passengers ... Read More
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