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The Only Plane in the Sky
- An Oral History of September 11, 2001
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A 2020 Audiobook of the Year Audie Award Winner!
A 2020 Multi-Voiced Performance Audie Award Winner!
Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States presidential addresses, in-flight communications, and air traffic control.
Now with a new afterword, Garrett M. Graff’s instant New York Times best seller The Only Plane in the Sky, the comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001 called “history as its most immediate and moving” (Jon Meacham) and “remarkable...a priceless civic gift” (The Wall Street Journal).
Hailed as “remarkable...incredibly evocative and compelling” (The Washington Post) and “oral history at its finest” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Garrett M. Graff’s The Only Plane in the Sky is the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet, comprised of never-before-published transcripts, recently declassified documents, and original interviews and stories from nearly 500 government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members. Here is a vivid, profound, and searing portrait of humanity on a day that changed the course of history and all of our lives.
What the critics say
"The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 is a book exquisitely suited to audio format, a detailed cataloging of hundreds of personal stories, read by actors and culled from 5,000 oral histories conducted and archived around the country.... We hear from first responders, office workers in the twin towers, people traumatized by witnessing falling bodies.... Unlike many works of history, The Only Plane in the Sky, a mountain of indelible anecdotes, does not feel like a novel. It feels, instead, like dozens that ought to be written." (The New York Times Book Review)
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- melt72
- 2023-08-22
Excellent
This book was absolutely amazing to listen to. The chronological order of the events and the organization of the storyline is perfect to learn from. Should be mandatory listening for anyone who wants to hear the impact that these actions had on others.
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- Steven Climie
- 2023-06-24
Moving
This was the best audiobook I’ve listened to in years. The use of multiple voice actors to read the personal accounts was very effective.
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- Bella Amelia
- 2021-10-07
Incredible!
This was a very detailed narrative told from the point of view of many people, each one played by a voice actor. generation, the performance, everything was absolutely 5 out of five. I highly recommend this if you are interested in the human side of 9/11.
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- Roberta W
- 2021-06-27
Very good
Best of all the 9-11 accounts I have listened to. I appreciated the way the book was sequenced chronologically, including perspectives from across spectrums of survivors, family members, official government activities, journalists and so on. The pace was thankfully no breathless, just steady. Keep listening after the Epilogue for an insightful interview with the author.
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- Candice S.
- 2020-09-16
Every Person Should Read This
This is singularly one of the most incredible, compelling and heartbreaking books I have every encountered. The audio is PHENOMENALLY done with a huge cast that make you feel all the closer to the story and the people who lived so close to this tragedy.
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- Emily Moss
- 2019-09-22
amazing, touching, heartbreaking, and all too real
so vivid and raw, this is history really captures many different viewpoints of that fateful day. so heartbreaking
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