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Saved at the Seawall : Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift /
"After terrorists crashed passenger jets into the World Trade Center towers, which later collapsed, mariners delivered an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 people off Manhattan Island. This unplanned evacuation-unprecedented in speed, scale, and scope-became the largest boat lift in history. Mariner...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2021.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "After terrorists crashed passenger jets into the World Trade Center towers, which later collapsed, mariners delivered an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 people off Manhattan Island. This unplanned evacuation-unprecedented in speed, scale, and scope-became the largest boat lift in history. Mariners' skill, innovation, professionalism, and cooperation made the effort successful"-- |
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| Description: | First published in 2017 by McGraw Hill Education under title: Dust to deliverance : untold stories from the maritime evacuation on September 11. |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (270 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781501759130 |