102 minutes : the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers /
Dwyer, Jim, -1957
102 minutes : the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers / Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. - New York : Times Books, 2005 - xxiv, 322 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-299) and index.
and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women -- the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished -- who made 102 minutes count as never before."www.shelfari.com" thousands of pages of oral histories The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers -- reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it -- until now. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews
805076824
Buildings--New York (State)
Rescue work--New York.
Self-preservation--New York (State)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.--New York (State)
Victims of terrorism--New York.--New York (State)--New York.--New York.
HV 6432.7 / .D978 2005
102 minutes : the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers / Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. - New York : Times Books, 2005 - xxiv, 322 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-299) and index.
and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women -- the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished -- who made 102 minutes count as never before."www.shelfari.com" thousands of pages of oral histories The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers -- reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it -- until now. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews
805076824
Buildings--New York (State)
Rescue work--New York.
Self-preservation--New York (State)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.--New York (State)
Victims of terrorism--New York.--New York (State)--New York.--New York.
HV 6432.7 / .D978 2005
