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.
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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.