{"product_id":"ash-and-honor-the-untold-368-minutes-of-9-11","title":"Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9\/11","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJEFFREY ROBINSON is the international bestselling author of more than 30 books. A native New Yorker, he spent 37 years in Europe writing investigative non-fiction, feature journalism, short fiction, novels, television documentaries and radio dramas. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishing for the 25th anniversary of 9\/11: A dramatic, never-before-told, minute by minute account of the military, national security, and aviation response to the devastating attacks against the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn September 11, 2001, the United States faced the deadliest terrorist attack in its history. While the events of that day have been widely reported, \u003ci\u003eAsh and Honor\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterclass of narrative journalism, putting into a shocking new context what really happened. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvestigative journalist Jeffrey Robinson weaves together the stories of more than 60 American and Canadian eye-witnesses to history, many of whom who have never spoken publicly, taking readers on a unique journey deep inside the most crucial and devastating 368 minutes of our time. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAsh and Honor\u003c\/i\u003e draws from the voices of people in the air and on--or below--the ground, all making crucial, split-second decisions. From the pilot in the cockpit of what was possibly \"the fifth plane\"; to the pilots in the cockpits of the fighter jets on a suicide mission to stop the hijacked planes from reaching their targets; to Air Force One, where the pilot, facing a direct threat to the plane, told himself, \"Time to be Tom Cruise,\" while the Secret Service agent responsible for President Bush's safety refused his demand to return to Washington. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobinson reveals what happened in a bunker five stories below the East Wing of the White House, where an illegal order was made to shoot down a civilian passenger jet; in a tense meeting in the National Military Command Center's top-secret Air Threat Conference; and in NORAD's underground Cheyenne Mountain, where a direct threat to NORAD was so menacing that the commanding General declared \"Battle stations\" deep inside and ordered the 30-ton hardened steel blast doors shut. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, the FAA's national operations manager took it upon himself to order all planes in the air to land; the Canadian Minister of Transport suddenly found himself with 238 planes and 33,000 passengers diverted to Canada; the small Canadian towns of Whitehorse and Gander braced for crises and emergency landings; and a three-star general in Alaska stared down Vladimir Putin, who deliberately sent Russian bombers right up to the edge of US airspace as America's nuclear response was put on a worldwide 15-minute alert. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eASH AND HONOR is the definitive chronicle of the chaos and confusion, the turmoil and pandemonium, told by first-hand sources who guided America through the ash and honor of its darkest day. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eRobinson, Jeffrey\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJEFFREY ROBINSON is the international best-selling author of more than two dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction. A recognized expert on organized crime and money laundering, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Takedown \u003c\/i\u003eis his fifth investigative true crime exposé. He lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496132542742,"sku":"9781250465191","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9781250465191.jpg?v=1783053699","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/ash-and-honor-the-untold-368-minutes-of-9-11","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}