{"product_id":"the-only-plane-in-the-sky-garrett-m-graff-9781913183417","title":"The Only Plane in the Sky","description":"\"Incredibly evocative and compelling.\" - The Washington Post\n\"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read.\" - The Times\n\"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\n\"The most vivid portrait of 9\/11 I've ever read.\"- Mike Morell, former deputy director of the CIA\n** Updated 20th Anniversary edition with additional content **\nThe 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.\nIt 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. \nWe 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.\nIn 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.\nDrawing 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.\nThe 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.","brand":"Octopus Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548456128800,"sku":"9781913183417","price":12.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781913183417.jpg?v=1781016361","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-only-plane-in-the-sky-garrett-m-graff-9781913183417","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}