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by William Langewiesche (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner (3 Feb 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743239695
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743239691
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 210,436 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'The first outstanding literary work to engage with the Manhattan catastrophe...a classic of frontline reportage'

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hysteria-free, well-written description of the WTC clean-up, 23 Mar 2005
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I really enjoy Langewiesche's writing. Given the tone of most reportage of the events and subsequent clean-up operations, his calm, detatched approach is refreshing.
He doesn't shy away from the reality of the situation - factionalism, looting, profiteering. Anyone with any experience of large engineering projects will recognise the culture he describes. It's a fascinating treatment of a huge engineering undertaking which I was (literally) unable to put down and consumed in a single session.
A word about his treatment of firemen, which one review on this site (malkelno1) takes issue with. Firstly, Langewiesche doesn't say that firemen were only interested in rescuing their own living survivors, above civilians or police (as the malkelno1 review states); rather, he says that the firemen were felt by the contractors and police at the site to be much more interested in recovering firefighters' bodies than any others. Second, he makes the point that no firefighter who went up the twin towers that day as part of the rescue effort did so in the expectation that they would collapse - so they weren't operating in some expecially noble spirit of knowing self-sacrifice, but were doing the (dangerous) job they are paid for. Finally, he points out that media and cultural factors seemed to cause the firefighters and their relatives to become self-dramatic and over-emotional in the months following the attack. You may or may not find that you agree with those views - read the book and make up your own mind.
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2.0 out of 5 stars I am not sure i got it!, 7 Jan 2005
I am a bit of a fanatic reader when it comes to September 11th I had friends and family involved and so i try to read everything i can on the subject. There were some really shocking and controversial statements made in this book which I thought were in poor taste (that the fireman at Ground Zero were only concerned with retrieving their fallen brothers and according to this author they had little interest in recuing other Emergency service personnel trapped in the buildings - CRAZY, these statements are blatantly not true!). It seems to me as a reader of lots of these books that the author really has an issue with fireman as he slates them at every chance he gets.
To me the author has written this book to try and be controversial - to be honest if you are thinking about buying this book there are others on the market which are better and actually contain a more accurate account of those horrific events. Give this one a miss!
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