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September 11: The Day That Changed the World
The true story of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and twenty years of consequences.
About
A man sings into a bullhorn while a skyscraper burns around him — and his calm voice saves nearly two thousand seven hundred lives. It's just one story from a single morning that changed the world: four flights, the passengers of one of them voting to fight back, and a country that, within hours, watches its own airspace empty for the first time in its history.
From the towers of New York to the compound in Abbottabad where the man behind the attack was found a decade later, this book follows not just that morning, but everything that came after: the war in Afghanistan that closed a twenty-year circle with an unexpected irony, the contested invasion of Iraq, and the way the world's relationship to an airport changed, permanently.
A story about courage inside terror, and about how long a single morning's shadow can stretch.
Sources
- Wikipedia — "September 11 attacks" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
- Britannica — "September 11 attacks" — https://www.britannica.com/event/September-11-attacks
- National September 11 Memorial & Museum — https://www.911memorial.org/
- Wikipedia — "Rick Rescorla" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla
- Wikipedia — "United Airlines Flight 93" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93
- Wikipedia — "1993 World Trade Center bombing" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
- Wikipedia — "Killing of Osama bin Laden" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden
- History.com — "George W. Bush Signs the Patriot Act" — https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-26/george-w-bush-signs-the-patriot-act
- Wikipedia — "Guantanamo Bay detention camp" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
- Wikipedia — "Fall of Kabul (2021)" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)
- Miller Center — "March 20, 2003: Address on the Start of the Iraq War" — https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/march-20-2003-address-start-iraq-war
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