The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told; Twenty Gripping Tales of Heroism and Bravery,9781585747016

The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told; Twenty Gripping Tales of Heroism and Bravery

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ISBN13: 9781585747016
ISBN10: 1585747017
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher(s): The Lyons Press
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Summary

Human drama at its most gripping and satisfying.

Author Biography

JOSEPH CUMMINS is the author of The Snow Train, a novel, and the editor of Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea. He lives in New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Part One Rescue in the High Mountains
The Orge
2(9)
Jack Olsen
The Terrible Spring
11(8)
Jonathan Waterman
Crash at the Top of the World
19(18)
John Melady
Not Enough Time
37(11)
Hal Clifford
No Place for People
48(24)
Hamish MacInnes
Part Two Angels in Uniform: Cops, Firemen, Emergency Services
Minute-by-Minute at the World Trade Center
72(25)
The Reporters, Writers and Editors of Der Spiegel
Rescue in the Bronx
97(7)
Dennis Smith
To Save a Life
104(14)
Steve Delsohn
Under The Rubble: Two Cops Learn About Life
118(13)
Jim Nolan
Nicole Weisensee Egan
Part Three From a Watery Grave: Rescue At Sea
Ready to Surface
131(11)
Peter Maas
All in a Day's Work
142(7)
John Melady
The Most Dangerous Occupation
149(18)
Spike Walker
Rescuing the Rescuers
167(22)
Sebastian Junger
Part Four Men At War: Saving Lives in Terrible Peril
An American Combat Doctor in Dachau
189(13)
Brendan Phibbs
Precious Cargo
202(27)
Steven Trent Smith
Behind Enemy Lines
229(8)
Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
Singular Courage
237(11)
Darrel D. Whitcomb
Out of the Jaws of Hell
248(14)
Mark Bowden
Part Five Rescue Dogs
The Mercy Dogs
262(6)
Michael G. Lemish
Two Missions, Two Results
268(19)
Susan Bulanda
Permissions Acknowledgments 287

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