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Title: Brotherhood by Frank McCourt, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Thomas Von Essen ISBN: 0-916103-73-0 Publisher: Sterling Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.97 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: In tears
Comment: is the only way I can describe how I felt looking at the images in this beautiful book. God bless the men who made the ultimate sacrifice for others. This book is a breathtaking memoir on their heroism. Hopefully we will never forget
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful tribute for all of the FDNY
Comment: "The Brotherhood" is a spectacular and moving tribute to all of New Yorks Bravest. It is tearfully moving yet not in the least bit over done or surupy. The Photography is absolutely first rate and truely captures the heart and soul of the FDNY and the sense of loss that all NY feels for the men and women of the New York City Fire Dept.I have not read Frank McCourt's books, but after reading his moving salute to the firemen of New York City I can easly understand why many consider him to be among the greatest living and active writers today. His two pages of writting alone are worth the price of this book. Wether you wish to buy this book simply because you wish to help the families of those killed or because of it's potential historical value or perhaps because you are a fire fighter or fire buff you won't be disappoited by this wonderful tribute/book. A definite buy.
Rating: 5
Summary: A precisely titled tribute!
Comment: Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" was a tremendous inside look at a childhood filled with tragedy and its overcoming, in this book he chronicles the greatest single tragedy in the FDNY's history - 343 firemen killed in the line-of-duty during the attacks on New York's World Trade Centers.
The prose is poetic and the pictures are poignant. It is a well crafted tribute to all those who made sacrifices on that day and during the grim days directly after 9/11/01.
I've been a NYC firefighter for over sixteen years (I work in the South Bronx) and the Fire Department is indeed and hopefully always will be a BROTHERHOOD. Firemen routinely refer to each other as "Brothers," as in "brother firemen." If that offends some people that offense is misplaced. There are currently less than thirty active female firefighters in the 10,000 member FDNY. There were no women who responded to the World Trade Centers on the eleventh. That's why there were no female firefighters among the 343 killed...and thank God.
The Fire Service is not a job conducive to the vast majority of women. The job is not just filthy, brutal and dangerous, but given the wide gap in upper body strength between men and women, only a handful of women are up to the rigors of the job. Those women who do get into the FDNY must be prepared to join the "Brotherhood."
Still, the point is that the title here is entirely appropriate, especially in light of those who made the supreme sacrifice that day. This is an excellent book and one well worth reading, especially for those who didn't get a first-hand look at Ground Zero.
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Title: In the Line of Duty: A Tribute to New York's Finest and Bravest ISBN: 0060093633 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Firehouse by David Halberstam ISBN: 1401300057 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt ISBN: 0684865742 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center by Dennis Smith ISBN: 067003116X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 18 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: So Others Might Live: A History of New York's Bravest--The FDNY from 1700 to the Present by Terry Golway ISBN: 0465027407 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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