The Only Plane in the Sky

The Only Plane in the Sky is Garrett Graff's oral history of September 11, 2001, assembled from nearly 500 firsthand accounts: firefighters, survivors, fighter pilots, government officials and the families waiting for word. Rather than a single narrative, it stitches together short first-person testimonies into a minute-by-minute record of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the passengers of Flight 93, and the country's chaotic first hours of response.