A heroic, compelling, superbly written tale in a highly popular genre about recent events that transfixed the world.
For readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio, and Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha.
The incredible true story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan, and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a daring escape-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 13 HoursWhen the U.S. began its withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Afghan Army instantly collapsed, Homeira Qaderi was marked for death at the hands of the Taliban. A celebrated author,...
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'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish... From an author who's spent 5 years reconstructing its horror, never has the story been told with such devastating, human force' Daily Mail
From the New York Times bestselling author of Frozen in Time and Lost in Shangri-La comes a spell-binding, heart-breaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative weaves together myriad stories to create the definitive portrait of 9/11.
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, uplifting narrative is an indelible portrait of 9/11.Fall and Rise masterfully weaves together the interrelated strands of the events in New York City, in Washington, D.C., and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to create the first minute-by-minute history of that horrendous day.In the hours, weeks, and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, ...
Geschichten, die man nie mehr vergisst: Es ist ein ganz normaler Dienstag im September. Die kleine Christine freut sich auf ihren ersten Flug zu ihren Großeltern. John - Pilot bei United Airlines - verlässt im Morgengrauen leise das Haus, um Frau und Kinder nicht zu wecken. Und der Architekt Ron nutzt die Fahrt mit der Fähre, um sich auf ein Meeting im World Trade Center vorzubereiten ...
9/11 ist das entscheidende Ereignis unseres Jahrhunder...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11.
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, uplifting narrative is an indelible portrait of 9/11.In the hours, weeks, and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After years of meticulous research and reporting on that infamous day, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with the voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an ...
On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished.In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the...
When a cargo plane goes missing over the Greenland ice cap in November 1942, a B-17 is dispatched on a perilous search-and-rescue mission that ends in disaster when the plane crashes into a fogged-out glacier. Almost three weeks later, the U.S. Coast Guard learns that contact has been made with the B-17 crew, who are taking refuge in the plane's broken tail. The Coast Guard begins rescue efforts, successfully extracting two of the B-17 survivo...
The author of Lost in Shangri-La delivers an astonishing true account of endurance and bravery in the Arctic wilderness.On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a storm and also crashed. All nine men aboard survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue mission, but that plane flew into a severe storm and vanished.Frozen in Time i...
A gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of "New York Times"-bestseller "Lost in Shangri-La.
One of the last untold stories of World War II, the extraordinary mission to rescue male and female survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe members that aided those stranded on the ground in this Shangri-La.
»13 Hours« zeichnet die Attacke islamistischer Milizen auf das US-Konsulat sowie den CIA-Stützpunkt in Bengasi, Libyen, in der Nacht vom 11. auf den 12. September 2012 nach - auf den Tag genau elf Jahre nach 9/11. 13 Stunden dauerte der Angriff. Sechs von der CIA angeheuerte Sicherheitsleute - Ex-Marines, -SEALs und -Army-Ranger - versuchen eine Tragödie abzuwenden. Doch der amerikanische Botschafter J. Christopher Stevens und drei weitere Män...
On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over “Shangri-La, ” a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea.Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton’s bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals. But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle ...
The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans statione...
