THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." - The Washington Post
"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." - The Times "Astonishing book
about an astonishing terrifying atrocity relived in real time by those who were there. I read
it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish." - Piers Morgan "The most vivid
portrait of 9 11 I've ever read."- Mike Morell former deputy director of the CIA ** Updated
20th Anniversary edition with additional content ** The Only Plane in the Sky is nothing less
than the first comprehensive oral history of 9 11 drawing on transcripts declassified
documents and interviews from nearly 500 people. While there has been so much published about
9 11 over the last two decades the most important book has been missing until now: a
360-degree account of the day told through the voices of the people who experienced it. In New
York first responders confront a scene of unimaginable chaos at the Twin Towers. From a secret
bunker beneath the White House Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice watch for incoming planes on
radar. In the offices of the Pentagon top officials feel the violent tremor as their
headquarters come under attack. Poignant and powerful The Only Plane in the Sky captures the
event that shocked the world from the people who lived it. Read the true stories of the father
and son working on separate floors in the North Tower the firefighter who rushes to the scene
to search for his wife the telephone operator who keeps her promise to share a passenger's
last words with his family the chaplain who sacrifices his own life to perform last rites as
the Twin Towers collapse the teachers evacuating terrified children from schools mere blocks
from the World Trade Center the generals at the Pentagon who break down and weep when they are
barred from rushing into the burning building to try and rescue their colleagues. All in their
own words. The 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.
