Autor(en)

Smith, Dennis:

Verlag / Jahr

Viking Adult, 2022.

Format / Einband

Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket. 366 p.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 675 g

ISBN

067003116X

EAN

9780670031160

Bestell-Nr

1204973

Bemerkungen

Leicht berieben und vergilbt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Mit Widmung auf Schmutztitel / Slightly rubbed and yellowed, otherwise in very good condition. With dedication on half-title. - Immediately after two hijacked jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith, a retired firefighter who had served eighteen years with the New York City Fire Department, reported to Manhattan’s Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue effort. Among those missing in the tragedy were 343 firefighters, many of whom were his friends and longtime colleagues. Having spent his career as both a respected writer and a member of one of the city’s busiest firehouses, Smith became determined to use his unique background to tell the story of the disaster and its aftermath with the empathy and understanding that only an insider could bring to it. Report from Ground Zero is a dramatic narrative of this three-month period, a time that has permanently altered the landscape and character of America. The book opens with astonishing first-person testimony from dozens of the rescuers who were present as the towers were attacked, evacuated, and then fell. We hear a battalion chief’s story of the command center in the lobby of the burning north tower, outside of which a hellish rain of rubble, bodies, and fire continued as firefighters arrived to begin their long journey ninety floors up to the scene of the disaster. We follow a Port Authority officer’s path through the underground concourse of the Trade Center, where he watches his best friend die after the space unexpectedly collapses. We hear the harrowing story of the miraculous survival of twelve firefighters, a Port Authority police officer, and a civilian who huddled in a stairwell, waiting for death as they listened to the terrible roar of 110 floors of skyscraper come tumbling down upon them. We share the grief of the families of firefighters—wives awaiting word of their husbands’ fates; a fire patrolman walking the devastated site looking for his missing father and brother; a battalion chief seeking his lost son. ISBN 9780670031160

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