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Author:

Dwyer, Jim, 1957-

Title:

102 minutes : the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers / Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn.

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Publisher:

Times Books,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xxiv, 337 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Victims of terrorism--New York.--New York.
Buildings--Evacuation--New York.--New York.
Rescue work--New York.--New York.
Self-preservation--New York.--New York.
World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.)

Other Authors:

Flynn, Kevin, 1956-

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

"It's a bomb, let's get out of here." -- "It's going to be the top story of the day." -- "Mom, I'm not calling to chat." -- "We have no communication established up there yet." -- "Should we be staying here, or should we evacuate?" -- "Get away from the door!" -- "If the conditions warrant on your floor, you may wish to start an orderly evacuation." -- "You can't go this way." -- "The doors are locked." -- "I've got a second wind." -- "I'm staying with my friend." -- "Tell the chief what you just told me." -- "We'll come down in a few minutes." -- "You don't understand."

Summary:

Of the millions of words written about September 11, 2001, most were told from the outside looking in. "New York Times" reporters Dwyer and Flynn have taken the opposite and far more revealing-approach, capturing the little-known stories of the nearly 12,000 ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. They tell 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; thousands of pages of oral histories; 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.

ISBN:

9780805080322
0805080325

LCCN:

2006272620

Locations:

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GQPB641 -- Melbourne Public Library (Melbourne)

JKPC771 -- Polk City Community Library (Polk City)

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