The dramatic and moving account from the struggle forever in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted.

At 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers — reading e-mails, building trades, feeding on croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 a few minutes, each would become element of a dilemma for the ages, one witnessed only by the individuals who resided it — until now.

New York Situations reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews; thousands of webpages of oral histories; and phone, e-mail, and crisis radio transcripts. They combination a bridge of voices to look inside the infernos, viewing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to inform the affecting, authoritative saga of the women and men — the 12,000 who escaped and the two 2,749 who perished — who produced 102 minutes count as never before.

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