Name: 102 Minutes
ISBN: 9780805094213

Jim Dwyer

Kevin Flynn

Traces the hours following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to reveal the first-hand experiences of survivors, in a volume that draws on oral reports, e-mails, radio transcripts, and cell-phone conversations.

The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

102 Minutes

The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

Emelie

3,5owls!

Jag gillade verkligen att boken var skriven från en objektiv vinkel. Det var inget "åh tyck synd om mig nu" utan ren fakta.

Tracie McMurray

Gripping story told in an informative tone. The research it took for this story was beautifully woven into the personal stories of heroism. I couldn’t put it down.

Caroline Lewicki

Another very compelling book on 9/11. The use of time added to the impending sense of doom that already lurks around the day. It offers some analysis of the aftermath of 9/11 and things that could have been done better, which I felt was interesting and not often found in more recent historical recounts.

Andrew John Kinney

At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York - reading emails, making calls, eating croissants... over the next 102 minutes each would become part of the most infamous and deadly terrorist attack in history, one truly witnessed only by the people who lived through it - until now.Of the millions of words written about that unforgettable day when Al Qaeda attacked the western world, most have been from outsiders. New York Timesreporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken the more revealing approach - using real-life testimonies to report solely from the perspective of those inside the towers. 102 Minutesis the epic account of ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever in this kamikaze act of terrorism. This unique book about unique people, includes incredible stories of bravery, courage and overcoming unbelievable odds. Immortalised in this non-fiction masterpiece are the construction manager and his colleagues who pried open the doors and saved dozens of people in the north tower; the police officer who was a few blocks away, filing his retirement papers, but grabbed his badge and sprinted to the buildings; the window washer stuck in a lift fifty floors up who used a squeegee to escape; and the secretaries who led an elderly man down eighty-nine flights of stairs.Chance encounters, moments of grace, a shout across an office shaped these minutes, marking the border between fear and solace, staking the boundary between life and death. Crossing a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and herosim one person at a time, Dwyer and Flynn tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women - the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished at Ground Zero on September 11th 2001 - as they made 102 minutes count as never before.

Lamia Hajani

Jaime

Alissa Kirchner

Brandy Allen

Jen Cairns 

Recounts the survival efforts of thousands of people who were inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, in an account that also raises questions about building safety and New York's emergency preparedness.

102 Minutes The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

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