Maclean, Norman — Young Men and Fire

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Univ of Chicago Pr 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall pp.301 August 5, 1949 a crew of 15 U.S. Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smoke jumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote fire in Montana wilderness. Less than an hour later all but three were dead or mortally burned. The author haunted by these deaths puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy. clean tight unread copy. minuscule edgewear. Fine Very Good