Barbara C. (kewl) reviewed on 4/9/2006 + 469 more book reviews

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the U.S. Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Less than an hour after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy. "A magnificent drama of writing, a tragedy that pays tribute to the dead and offers rescue to the living . . . "

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