Young Men and Fire
Twentyfifth Anniversary Edition
by Norman MacLean
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appears in Firefighting, Adventure, and History.
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_x0092_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 mortall...
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