The Greatest Search and Rescue Stories Ever Told: Twenty Gripping Tales of Heroism and Bravery »

JOSEPH CUMMINS is the author of The Snow Train, a novel, and the editor of Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea. He lives in New Jersey.

Human drama at its most gripping and satisfying.

Introduction

Part One-Rescue in the high Mountains
The Ogre-Jack Olsen
The Terrible Spring-Jonathan Waterman
Crash at the Top of the World-John Melady
Not Enough Time-Hal Clifford
No Place for the People- Hamish MacInnes

Part Two- Angels in Unifor: Cops, FIreman, Emergency Services
Minute-by-Minute at the World Trade Center-The Reporters, Writers, and Editors of Der Spiegel
Rescue in the Bronx-Dennis Smith
To Save a Life-Steve Delsohn
Under the Rubble: Two Cops Learn About Life-Jim Nolan and Nicole Weisensee Eagan

Part Three-From a Watery Grave: Rescue at Sea
Ready to Surface-Peter Maas
All in a Day's Work-John Melady
The Most Dangerous Occupation-Spike Walker
Rescuing the Resuers-Sebastian Junger

Part Four-Men at War: Saving Lives in the Terrible Peril
An American Combat Doctor in Dachau-Brendan Phibbs
Precious Cargo-Steven Trent Smith
Behing Enemy Lines- Kregg P.J. Jorgenson
Singular Courage-Darrel D. Whitcomb
Out of the Jaws of Hell- Mark Bowden

Part Five-Rescue Dogs
The Mercy DOgs-Michael G. Lemish
Two Missions, Two Results-Susan Bulanda