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The skies belong to us : love and terror in the golden age of hijacking /

In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of Sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; other...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Koerner, Brendan I. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Hijacking of aircraft > United States > Case studies.

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