102 Minutes

from Stbalbach

Dwyer has assembled first-hand reports from survivors of the Twin Towers to build a dramatic narrative account of minute by minute who did what and where. Dwyer lets the facts speak for themselves. He doesn't dwell on dead bodies or injuries or the horror of jumping or people freaking out. He is ...

from JReynolds1959

8:46 am, 9/11/01. That is when the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. People were inside either getting ready to start their workday, working their workday, meeting, etc. Little was understood by those inside exactly what had happened. Their only thoughts were to try to ge...

from seoulful

An emotional, intense account of the 102 minutes from the impact of the first plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center until the collapse of the two towers. It is a tale of escape and the will to live, of leaders who roused people and found or made exits and people who were told to wa...

from pineapplejuggler

Well written with great detail and successfully presents the case that the story of Sept. 11th goes back decades to the planning and designing of the World Trade Center and the festering relationships between the police, fire, and port authority departments, and the local government. I thought th...

from bogopea

Great book. Very well researched and written. This edition had a new afterword written in 2006 and was brutally honest about the deficiencies that contributed to the amount of lives lost, due to lack of communication or lack of proper structural things that may have prevented the collapse and ena...