Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff (PDF)

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Years in the making, this spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative is an unforgettable portrait of 9/11.This is a 9/11 book like no other. Masterfully weaving together multiple strands of the events in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Fall and Rise is a mesmerizing, minute-by-minute account of that terrible day. In the days and months after 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff, then a reporter for the Boston Globe, wrote about the attacks, the victims, and their families. After further years of meticulous reporting, Zuckoff has filled Fall and Rise with voices of the lost and the saved. The result is an utterly gripping book, filled with intimate stories of people most affected by the events of that sunny Tuesday in September: an out-of-work actor stuck in an elevator in the North Tower of the World Trade Center; the heroes aboard Flight 93 deciding to take action; a veteran trapped in the inferno in the Pentagon; the fire chief among the first on the scene in sleepy Shanksville; a team of firefighters racing to save an injured woman and themselves; and the men, women, and children flying across country to see loved ones or for work who suddenly faced terrorists bent on murder.Fall and Rise will open new avenues of understanding for everyone who thinks they know the story of 9/11, bringing to life—and in some cases, bringing back to life—the extraordinary ordinary people who experienced the worst day in modern American history. Destined to be a classic, Fall and Rise will move, shock, inspire, and fill hearts with love and admiration for the human spirit as it triumphs in the face of horrifying events.

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⭐I am on page 166 and burst into tears reading about the phone call between Esther and Elizabeth. Having lived through this day in an apartment not far from the Pentagon, I’m not sure why I’m subjecting myself to this sad book. It’s not as if I need a reminder of the constant horrors we human beings inflict on each other on a daily basis because of such superficial crap as the differences in religion, race, and the dirt we live on plus money and politics. Maybe it’s to seek out the feelings I remembered after 9/11 of unity, charity, caring, helping, before all the fear crept in. After I finish this, I may go find a deserted island to live on.

⭐The attacks of September 11, 2001 are one of those events that people never forget the details. It’s one of those seminal moments in our lives; we never forget where we were, what we were doing. MSNBC replays their broadcast moment by moment on the succeeding years. (Or, at least they did til last year. I certainly hope they go back to broadcasting it this year and going forward.) The fascinating thing about watching the rebroadcast is that you can tell how scared…and professional, the news people were, despite the knowing that tens of thousands of people could have been killed that day, if the buildings hadn’t been evacuated so well.There have been many books – both fiction and non-fiction – written about 9/11. Now Boston Globe journalist, Mitchell Zukoff, has written one of the definitive books about the attacks and the people behind it, affected by it, and horrified by it. His book, “Rise and Fall: The Story of 9/11”, uses the lives of pilots, passengers, civil responders, Osama bin Ladin and the hijackers, as well as many others whose lives either ended or were changed irretrievably that day. One of the sadder stories is that of two friends and the young daughter of one from Boston. They traveled separately to Los Angeles; one woman on the American flight…and her friend and child on the United flight. All three were killed that day.In addition to looking at the deed and the people, Zuckoff examines the official response by our government agencies, both the FAA and law enforcement. Agencies didn’t work together and no one officially cared if students at flying academies in the South West and Florida only wanted to know how to fly straight ahead and not know how to take off and land. “No Fly” lists were not extensive and the names were routinely ignored.Zukoff does an excellent job of going behind the scenes and asking questions I hadn’t heard addressed before. His writing is smooth and the book is a pleasure – despite the topic – to read.By the way, he recommends several other books on the subject, including “102 Minutes: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers” by New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. It explains how the Towers were evacuated and more lives were saved.

⭐This was a hard read. A really hard read if you were alive during 9/11. I didn’t know anyone who perished that day, but I remember falling to the floor in front of my television and sobbing alone endless nights after everyone was asleep over the loss of all those innocents. This book brings all that back even harder. It is exceptional in the way it weaves all the attacks as they happened simultaneously. At the heart of this book are the personal stories which make the moments of impact and collapse completely soul wrenching. I could only put it down because I’d get too upset to keep reading. Hard to believe it has been 18 years. I am grateful for this book so generations who did not live through it have such a thorough, empathetic reference to the events. There are not enough stars in the world to give this book. It is a heavily researched account of the tragedies without any political or personal embellishment by the author. Thank you to Mitchell Zuckoff for honoring the heroes and innocents from that horrific day by telling their stories. This is definitely narrative storytelling at its very best.

⭐I purchased this book a day after it was published. I just finished it and all I can say is — it was THAT good. Riveting, unparalleled emotion create what may be the top book I’ve read about that dark, September day. The stories are haunting; you know how the stories end, and yet you find yourself rooting for everyone written about in this book. Incredible!

⭐I can not put this book down. Gripping, tragic, and devastatingly beautiful all at the same time.

⭐A wonderful tribute to all those involved on 9/11 told through the eyes of those who were there. Reads like a novel and although there is some gore, it is in no way sensationalized but a necessary part to tell the whole story completely. I could not put it down from the first page to the last. Mitchell Zuckoff’s books are spellbinding.

⭐This book is riveting and I didn’t want to put it down even though it’s necessarily graphic at times. Mr. Zuckoff points out many issues that I hadn’t heard previously, i. e. how different agencies failed to communicate about the suspicious individuals and how they were initially delayed while going through security, only to be released to complete their assignments. He also identifies the delays caused when the airlines didn’t/couldn’t communicate with military. I sincerely hope that these deficiencies have all been corrected. I can’t imagine the level of stress he must have been under while writing this book but he done the survivors proud!

⭐I am three quarters of the way reading this book and received it two days ago and can’t put it down! It’s rare I buy a book in hardcover preferring to wait for the paperback. I do not regret one minute buying this book. I’ve discovered many details on the highjacking of the planes, peoples stories involved on the ground and much, much more. No one should ever forget what happened on 9/11 and Mitchell Zuckoff has written this book fantastically.

⭐Well !!! It’s taken me some time to get through this but it was well worth it….I have read a couple of other 9/11 compendiums but must say this one is the one with most detail. It in NO way shirks from the godawful truth of the sights and sounds some people witnessed that day. In places it is more than a little gruesome. However, it really happened and we’re the lucky ones-just reading about it and not living through it !! I watched it all unfold on TV safely thousands of miles away from all the nastiness and the worse we saw televised was the terrible fate of those jumping from the floors above the fires.I liked the fact the author referred to the mad ideals of being stuck in the seventh century and just how ridiculous it is, yet they’re still at it…..and back then, twenty years ago now, these chaps “lost” their IDs and of course were issued shiny new ones. And we’re STILL doing it……now they rock up in boats over here after ditching their IDs overboard and then we have no idea who they are, where they came from and just what harm they’re bringing…..we’ve learnt sod all !! And also not being in a position to “pull” them at the check-in desks for fear of offending brown-skinned terrorists. Again, this persists as well……it is shocking how it still happens and we’ve really not addressed anything. Of course, we hear of watch-lists but they’re never being watched !! Scary stuff……this type of atrocity is bound to be repeated cos’ we’ve learned nothing.There was so much contained within these pages I’d had no idea about before and we meet some differing personnel featured as well, along with some people we’ve all “met” before in other books and documentaries, etc.I have to say the flight crews on all the planes did a really great job in spreading the word to the ground (although it was sadly wasted since differing organisations weren’t speaking to each other)….and how the 911 dispatch personnel had to feel while fielding those calls where they knew there was just no real hope of their being saved.Certain passages are so sad, though the author writes them extremely well. Yet there are the odd amusing moments as well, surprisingly. I did chuckle at the description of the towers as oversized filing cabinets as that is certainly close…..they weren’t pretty !!I had no idea, either, that the relatives of victims were still being contacted by the respective coroners over a decade later as they discovered more IDs. That was horribly shocking to me. I was upset reading about Sirius as well, though saw on Google that he was found and given a guard of honour, which was lovely to read about.I was also left with my jaw hitting the floor that someone thought it a good thing to be proposing to build an Islamic cultural centre and mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero….I’d love to know whose bright idea that was !! Good to hear it was nixed although I read there was still a 3-storey Islamic museum put up. Why, America ???I liked reading of those left behind and their lives post-9/11. It was good to read of some of their positive epilogues.It states on the Amazon page that there’s a 16 page photo insert on the Kindle page. There isn’t. However, I didn’t find one error in over 600 pages and that is to be highly, highly commended indeed, as it’s so bloody rare !! So I’ll forgive the omission of the photo section. The font used was a super one, too. So the reading experience is a really good, if extremely harrowing one. It’s not for the fainthearted, believe me. I even found myself dreaming of 9/11, because of course we just had the 20th anniversary as well so there have been replays and shows on television, too.There needs to be a copy of this in every school library and kids need to learn about this and not have it drip-fed or sugar-coated.

⭐This is ONE of the definitive books on 9/11 ( at the end of my review you’ll understand why I said ONE ). I loved the start of this book, laying out stories of certain victims of that horrendous day and how it delved deeper into their lives.This was a book I wanted to read in one or two days but due to the nature of what happened and the stories within I had to read it over 5 days.I’m so glad Mitchell Zuckoff has written this book as it shall be forever a great project undertaken by him and will be a book for future generations to read.I’ll also add that the book, audiobook and kindle version of The Only Plane In The Sky by Garrett M Graff makes a great companion to this audiobook / book. Highly recommend both of them for a full account of that tragic day.

⭐This book is incredible. A masterpiece. I keep meaning to email Professor Zuckoff and tell him how i feel, but i hardly know where to begin. Someone, somewhere, at some time, had to write the definitive book about the worst day in America’s history, and Mitchell Zuckoff has produced an absolute gem. He has performed a great service to the survivors and to those who were lost and their loved ones. The book reduced me to tears more times than i can count. It is unbelievably well-written. The tragedy, the sadness… but also the courage and selflessness of the Emergency Responders and so many ‘ordinary people’. The book is heartbreaking and uplifting by turns. It makes you want to hug every fireman in New York. Everyone who can should read this book. It touched me in a way in which no book i’ve ever read has before… and i’ve read a LOT of books. READ IT. Thank you, Professor Zuckoff.

⭐Factually, extremely interesting, in particular with regards to the Twin Towers, but spoilt by overwrought character sketches. As an example: “At forty-three, Jay carried a solid 240 pounds on his six-foot-one frame. He had ruddy cheeks, catcher’s-mitt hands, steady blue eyes, and a big man’s quiet confidence.” I could have done without the journalistic colour.

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