The Only Plane in the Sky

<p>"Incredibly evocative and compelling."<i> -</i> <b><i>The Washington Post </i></b><br>"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." <b>- <i>The Times</i></b><br>"Astonishing. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish." <b>- Piers Morgan</b><br><br><b>** Updated 25th Anniversary edition with additional content **</b><br><br><b><i>The Only Plane in the Sky </i></b>is the first comprehensive oral history of 9/11, deftly woven and told in the voices of ordinary people grappling with extraordinary events.<br><br>It 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. <br><br>We 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. In 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.<br><br>Drawing 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.<br><br><b><i>The Only Plane in the Sky</i> </b>is a unique, profound, and searing exploration of humanity on a day that changed the course of history, and all of our lives, 25 years ago.</p>