Some of the finest writing and reporting on the events of September 11 was done by Der Spiegel, Germany's magazine of record. With its main office in Hamburg, base of operations for terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta and many of the others, Der Spiegel's journalists were on the front lines of the earliest investigation into the identities of those who, on a cloudless summer's morning, brought Holy War to America.
The award-winning team from Spiegel was also at Ground Zero, talking to people, gathering stories, interviewing survivors, seeking the words that might express the interconnections of horror and heroism. The words came to them from those who had been inside and somehow gotten out, and take us as close as we can get to what happened. Combining first-class investigative journalism and writing of extraordinary clarity, Inside 9-11 is a heartbreaking and gripping reconstruction of the events that changed us all. No book can encompass what took place on 9-11. But here is one that gives it human dimension.
Patricia Hastings ladyunicorn - Waynesville, NC wrote on 4/28/2007...
the most comprehensive reconstruction of 9-11...compelling...takes advantage of unparalleed access to police documents and reporting on three continents
This book is truly frightening. The fact that there are people out there with such disregard for human life is terrifying. This book tells the stories of the brave survivors and those who bravely died saving others. It also gives some very scary insight into the twisted minds of the terrorist/murderers who carried out this plot.
This is an fairly interesting detailing of what happened on September 9-11. Some of it reads like a tabloid, not real literary, but it still covers a lot of bases and points of view.