102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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masterpiece, A Night to Remember.” –Rick Atkinson,
leader of In the Company of Soldiers and An Army at Dawn
At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with rescuers and survivors, thousands of pages of oral histories, and countless phone, e-mail, and urgent situation radio transcripts, New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn tell the tale of September 11 from the inside looking out, weaving together the tales of ordinary men and women into an epic account of struggle, determination, and grace. Hailed immediately upon its hardcover publication as the definitive account of that terrible morning, 102 Minutes now contains a new Afterword that incorporates powerful firsthand material, including tapes and documents, that Dwyer and Flynn recently obtained after more than three years of litigation with the city of New York.
Eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and translated into a dozen languages, 102 Minutes is a gripping narrative that is also investigative reporting of the first rank–”in a class by itself,” according to Reader’s Digest. Dwyer and Flynn reveal the decisions, both excellent and terrible, that proved to be the difference between life and death on a day that changed America forever.
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In 102 Minutes: The Untold Tale of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, New York Times writers Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn vividly recreate the 102-minute span between the moment Flight 11 hit the first Twin Tower on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the moment the second tower collapsed, all from the perspective of persons inside the buildings–the 12,000 who escaped, and the 2,749 who did not. It’s apt simpler, years later, to forget the profound, visceral responses the Trade Center attacks evoked in the days and weeks following September 11. Using hundreds of interviews, countless transcripts of radio and phone communications, and exhaustive research, Dwyer and Flynn bring that flood of responses back–from heartbreak to bewilderment to fury. The randomness of death and survival is heartbreaking. One man, in the second tower, survived because he bolted from his desk the moment he heard the first plane hit; another, who stayed at his desk on the 97th floor, called his wife in his final moments to tell her to cancel a surprise trip he had plotted. In many cases, the deaths of persons who survived the initial attacks but were killed by the collapse of the towers were tragically avoidable. Building code exemptions, communication breakdowns between firefighters and police, and policies place in place by building management to keep everyone inside the towers in emergencies led, the authors argue, to the deaths of hundreds who might otherwise have survived. September 11 is by now both familiar and nearly mythological. Dwyer and Flynn’s accomplishment is recounting that day’s events in a style that is stirring, thorough, and refreshingly understated. –Erica C. Barnett
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A well written account in which these left-leaning authors really blame AMERICANS, from New York, for as many as 1,500 of the 2,749 9/11 deaths. Save your money for another book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Never in the history of skyscrapers has one fallen so quickly, yet as a replacement for of investigating why, as is done whenever a high-rise falls, in order to improve building design, the twin towers were NOT investigated! As a replacement for, everything was immediately shipped out of the country. Why?
These people who died in the towers deserve a perfect investigation. But it will never take place. The 9/11 Commission Report is extremely incomplete and full of inconsistensies. Key witnesses including firefighters and janitors in the basement of the towers were not allowed to testify!
Who ordered the removal from our shores of the debris?
Why would they do that?
It makes no sense unless they were covering up the real truth.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Am I really the only person to reflect that building a Hollywood-style action thriller-version of 9/11, perfect with cliff-hangers, is exceedingly disrespectful? Especially fleeting after the attacks?
I don’t judge so.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I wanted to like this book, but it is small more than a thorough feature tale for a newspaper. Very small sense of drama or horror. The event is somehow rendered flat and dull. No tiny feat.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Luckily, I spent only a dollar on this book at a dollar store in my neighborhood. Though I pretty much establish out what I needed to know glancing over the book in the dollar store, I had to buy it to take a closer, more in-depth look. They have a partial list of 394 victims, as if the additional 2000+ victims didn’t really count. There is no mention (AT ALL) of the many heroic rescues of William Rodriguez. There isn’t any mention of the hundreds of secondary explosions heard by hundreds of eyewitnesses including NYC firefighters. No mention of how simple these tiny, oxygen starved fires could have been brought under control by the fireman who made it to the points of impact in each of the two towers. I’m thinking that this could have been a publication to be taken more serious before the CFR controlled publisher took an ax to anything that resembled the truth. Another theory I have is that the authors are just another Homeland Security backed “operatives” (like the Well loved Science debunkers) whose mission is to further obscure the truth of what really happened on 9-11. There’s also no mention of the fact that these 3 buildings are the only 3 steel constructed building ever brought down by fire (the official lie). Question: why bother witting a book that is really based on a huge lie, then snub all the facts and omit all the vital evidence, which all leads to the fact these authors didn’t have a clue as to what was going on. Wake up people and stop reading disinformation propaganda like this cat box liner. Pure garbage.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5