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Young men and fire
Title:
Young men and fire
Author:
Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990, author.
Edition:
Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Publication Information:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Physical Description:
xx, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Summary:
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.--Amazon.
Language:
English
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780226475455

9780226450353
Format :
Book