{"product_id":"the-only-plane-in-the-sky-the-oral-history-of-9-11-on-the-20th-anniversary","title":"The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9\/11 on the 20th Anniversary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Incredibly evocative and compelling.\" - The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read.\" - The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting \u0026amp; was utterly gripped from start to finish.\" - Piers Morgan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most vivid portrait of 9\/11 I've ever read.\"- Mike Morell, former deputy director of the CIA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e** Updated 20th Anniversary edition with additional content **\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn New York, first responders confront a scene of unimaginable chaos. At the Pentagon generals break down and weep when they are barred from rushing into the burning building to try and rescue their colleagues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54003606585712,"sku":"978-1913183417","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":54003606618480,"sku":"978-1913183417","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_3593_e485f81d9f.jpg?v=1783562511","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/the-only-plane-in-the-sky-the-oral-history-of-9-11-on-the-20th-anniversary","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}