{"product_id":"ash-and-honor","title":"Ash and Honor","description":"\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":54210955673968,"sku":"9781250465191","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_4ee0d7f1-13c1-421f-8b1a-f404202e6d2e.jpg?v=1787363331","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/ash-and-honor","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}