The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told; Twenty Gripping Tales of Heroism and Bravery

by Edited by Joseph Cummins

• ISBN13: 9781592284832
• ISBN10: 1592284833
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

Joseph Cummins takes you inside the lives of the premier mountain rescue team in Aspen, Colorado; belts you into the seat of a rescue helicopter; puts you behind enemy lines with LRRPs search 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 in the desperate hours following the September 11th attacks. These twenty gripping tales of salvation and loss include the work of well-known authors such as Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down. But lesser-known authors with stories no less exciting are also included. From the dramatic story of a dog team's efforts to find a teenage girl lost in the Rockies to the miraculous rescue of sub-mariners trapped at the bottom of the North Atlantic.

Author Biography

JOSEPH CUMMINS is the author of The Snow Train, a novel, and the editor of Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea. He lives in New Jersey.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	ix
PART ONE Rescue in the High Mountains
THE OGRE	2	(9)
Jack Olsen
THE TERRIBLE SPRING	11	(8)
Jonathan Waterman
CRASH AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD	19	(18)
John Melady
NOT ENOUGH TIME	37	(11)
Hal Clifford
NO PLACE FOR PEOPLE	48	(24)
Hamish MacInnes
PART TWO Angels in Uniform: Cops, Firemen, Emergency Services
MINUTE-BY-MINUTE AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER	72	(25)
The Reporters, Writers and Editors of Der Spiegel
RESCUE IN THE BRONX	97	(7)
Dennis Smith
TO SAVE A LIFE	104	(14)
Steve Delsohn
UNDER THE RUBBLE: TWO COPS LEARN ABOUT LIFE	118	(13)
Jim Nolan and Nicole Weisensee Egan
PART THREE From a Watery Grave: Rescue At Sea
READY TO SURFACE	131	(11)
Peter Maas
ALL IN A DAY'S WORK	142	(7)
John Melady
THE MOST DANGEROUS OCCUPATION	149	(18)
Spike Walker
RESCUING THE RESCUERS	167	(22)
Sebastian Junger
PART FOUR Men At War: Saving Lives in Terrible Peril
AN AMERICAN COMBAT DOCTOR IN DACHAU	189	(13)
Brendan Phibbs
PRECIOUS CARGO	202	(27)
Steven Trent Smith
BEHIND ENEMY LINES	229	(8)
Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
SINGULAR COURAGE	237	(11)
Darrel D. Whitcomb
OUT OF THE JAWS OF HELL	248	(14)
Mark Bowden
PART FIVE Rescue Dogs
THE MERCY DOGS	262	(6)
Michael G. Lemish
TWO MISSIONS, TWO RESULTS	268	(19)
Susan Bulanda
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	287