- 592 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
"Better and more comprehensive than any prior account.... Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who weren't yet born, will find it revelatory." â John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and author of The Ground Truth
"With his rigorous research and moral clarity, Mitchell Zuckoff has provided us with an invaluable service. He has deepened our understanding of what happened on 9/11 and recorded the voices of the victims and the survivors. What's more, he has ensured that we never forget." âDavid Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon
Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11.
This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day.
In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder.
Fall and Rise will open new avenues of understanding for everyone who thinks they know the story of 9/11, bringing to lifeâand in some cases, bringing back to lifeâthe extraordinary ordinary people who experienced the worst day in modern American history.
Destined to be a classic, Fall and Rise will move, shock, inspire, and fill hearts with love and admiration for the human spirit as it triumphs in the face of horrifying events.
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Part I
FALL
From the Sky
Chapter 1
âQuietâs a Good Thingâ
Captain John Ogonowski
Peter, Sue Kim, and Christine Hanson
Table of contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Part I: FALL
- Chapter 1: âQuietâs a Good Thingâ
- Chapter 2: âHeâs NORDOâ
- Chapter 3: âA Beautiful Day to Flyâ
- Chapter 4: âI Think Weâre Being Hijackedâ
- Chapter 5: âDonât Worry, Dadâ
- Chapter 6: âThe Start of World War IIIâ
- Chapter 7: âBeware Any Cockpit Intrusionâ
- Chapter 8: âAmerica Is Under Attackâ
- Chapter 9: âMake Him Braveâ
- Chapter 10: âLetâs Rollâ
- Part II: Fall
- Chapter 11: âWe Need Youâ
- Chapter 12: âHow Lucky Am I?â
- Chapter 13: âGod Save Me!â
- Chapter 14: âWeâll Be Brothers for Lifeâ
- Chapter 15: âTheyâre Trying to Kill Us, Boysâ
- Chapter 16: âThey Done Blowed Up the Pentagonâ
- Chapter 17: âI Think Those Buildings Are Going Downâ
- Chapter 18: âTo Run, Where the Brave Dare Not Goâ
- Chapter 19: âRemember This Nameâ
- Chapter 20: âThis Is Your Plane Crashâ
- Chapter 21: âMayday, Mayday, Mayday!â
- Part III: RISE
- Chapter 22: âYour Sister and Niece Will Never Be Lonelyâ
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Select Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Mitchell Zuckoff
- Copyright
- About the Publisher