Human drama at its most gripping and satisfying.
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"Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with a great concept for a series of books that deserve more than superficial recognition. Such a series is "The Greatest (fill in the blank) Stories Ever Told", anthologies that should win places on many bedside tables. On the long winter nights that lie ahead, such stories make great reading." --The Lexington County Chronicle
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In The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told, Joseph Cummins takes you inside the lives of the premiere mountain rescue team in Aspen, Colorado; belts you into the seat of a rescue helicopter at the top of the world; puts you behind enemy lines with LRRPs searching for a colleague trapped by the North Vietnamese Army in Cambodia; and brings you into the hearts and minds of New York City police and firefighters tunneling under the World Trade Center rubble in the desperate hours following the September 11 attacks.These twenty gripping tales of salvation and loss include the work of well-known authors such as Sebastian Junger, whose The Perfect Storm chronicles the horrific tribulations of an Air National Guard helicopter after it ran out of fuel during a rescue operation, and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down, which shows the now-notorious attempt by Army Rangers and the elite Delta Force to rescue fellow troops trapped in Somalia in 1993. But lesser-known authors with stories no less exciting are also present. Jack Olsen's The Climb Up from Hell portrays the fate of four men caught on the north wall of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps, while Spike Walker's Coming Back Alive describes the desperate rescue of a small boy and his father from frigid Alaskan waters. From the dramatic story of a dog team's efforts to find a teenage girl lost in the Rockies to the miraculous rescue of submariners trapped at the bottom of the North Atlantic. The Greatest Search & Rescue Stories Ever Told is human drama at its most satisfying. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 304 pages)Joseph Cummins was born in Detroit. He is the author of The Snow Train, a novel. He also edited the anthology Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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INCOMPLETE STORIES,
This review is from: The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told: Twenty Gripping Tales of Heroism and Bravery (Paperback)
The stories themselves are great, but in some cases very poorly written, loaded with typos and INCOMPLETE!
I'm about halfway through the book, and, so far, two of the stories are grossly incomplete telling about some survivors, but leaving you completely in the dark about others. I've had to go online to find "the rest of the story" NOT RECOMMENDED.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told: Twenty Gripping Tales of Heroism and Bravery (Paperback)
It is a good compilation of chapters from other great books; Better to buy the books it borrows from than to buy this book however.
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