Young men and fire
By: Norman Maclean ; foreword by Timothy Egan
Contributors: Egan, Timothy, writer of foreword
Edition: Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780226475455; 9780226450353
Subjects: United States. Forest Service; Smokejumpers; Officials and employees; United States; Prevention and control; Forest fires
Description: A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.--Amazon.