Young men & fire
About this book
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.
Subjects
- employees
- fire fighters
- fire fighters, biography
- forest fires
- forêts
- incendies
- large type books
- nature
- nature / natural disasters
- officials and employees
- pompiers parachutistes
- prevencio n de incendios forestales
- prevención de incendios forestales
- prevention and control
- prévention et maîtrise
- smokejumpers
- united states
- united states, forest service
- united states. forest service