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102 Minutes (Paperback)
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102 Minutes (Paperback)
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List price R352
Loot Price R322
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You Save R30 (9%)
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________________________________________ The only book on 9/11 to
focus solely on the remarkable testimony of those inside the Twin
Towers during the attacks. At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000
people were inside the Twin Towers in New York - reading emails,
making calls, eating croissants... over the next 102 minutes each
would become part of the most infamous and deadly terrorist attack
in history, one truly witnessed only by the people who lived
through it - until now. Of the millions of words written about that
unforgettable day when Al Qaeda attacked the western world, most
have been from outsiders. New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and
Kevin Flynn have taken the more revealing approach - using
real-life testimonies to report solely from the perspective of
those inside the towers. 102 Minutes is the epic account of
ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever in this
kamikaze act of terrorism. This unique book about unique people,
includes incredible stories of bravery, courage and overcoming
unbelievable odds. Immortalised in this non-fiction masterpiece are
the construction manager and his colleagues who pried open the
doors and saved dozens of people in the north tower; the police
officer who was a few blocks away, filing his retirement papers,
but grabbed his badge and sprinted to the buildings; the window
washer stuck in a lift fifty floors up who used a squeegee to
escape; and the secretaries who led an elderly man down eighty-nine
flights of stairs. Chance encounters, moments of grace, a shout
across an office shaped these minutes, marking the border between
fear and solace, staking the boundary between life and death.
Crossing a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing
cataclysm and herosim one person at a time, Dwyer and Flynn tell
the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women - the 12,000
who escaped and the 2,749 who perished at Ground Zero on September
11th 2001 - as they made 102 minutes count as never before.
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