Young Men and Fire
Ranked #10 in Firefighting, Ranked #30 in Fire — see more rankings.
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Rankings by Category
Young Men and Fire is ranked in the following categories:
- #59 in Civil Engineering
- #40 in Forestry
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