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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New York :
Crown Publishers,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "Keep smiling"
- Coos Bay
- "I don't want to be an American anymore"
- Sweet black angel
- "I'm here and I exist
- Operation Sisyphus
- "There are Weathermen among you"
- "Can't you get a chopper?"
- "It's all a lie"
- The choice
- "We are going to be friends"
- "My only bomb is my human heart"
- "How do you resign from a revolution?"
- "The Olympics wasn't anything"
- "Monsieur Lecanuet, anyone can steal-- "
- Omega
- Tweety Bird
- Erased.