Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean
Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean
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Young Men and Fire

Author: Norman Maclean

Narrator: Corey M. Snow

Unabridged: 9 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/23/2017


Synopsis

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States 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 these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.

About Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean grew up in and around Missoula, Montana, where he worked in logging camps and for the U.S. Forest Service. He attended Dartmouth College and taught English for forty-six years at the University of Chicago.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Debra on 2011-05-06 09:52:01

This was a really interesting book. I'd never heard of the Mann Gulch fire and was horrified at this event but grateful for the lessons learned. Fascinating listen on CD, but I found his word pictures and colorful metaphysical descriptions mind-numbing. Without those or with less of them seemingly everywhere, I'd have rated the book 4 or 5 stars.

Goodreads review by Milo on March 25, 2015

A powerful, emotional and compelling story, this book probably deserves better than the two stars I am giving it. Frankly, I was not so engaged with it as I had hoped to be - and found it quite a slog to get to the end. The writing tends toward the poetical in many places - which I appreciate - whil......more

Goodreads review by Steven on December 03, 2019

4.5 rounded up......more

Goodreads review by William2 on October 21, 2018

History has a hard job. Such books have to focus on how the event happened. The reader sees in the loose accumulation of facts the vague certainty of what is to come. Everyone on the scene is heartbreakingly oblivious. Before we open Norman Maclean’s remarkable Young Men and Fire we know that on Aug......more

Goodreads review by Diamond on March 04, 2023

This is an excellent account of the horriffic fire in Montana in 1949. The author is a smoke jumper and investigates the fire, what the men did right, and what the men did wrong. It is a real page turner. I highly recommend this book.......more

Goodreads review by Megan on October 14, 2007

I LOVE THIS BOOK! I read it almost annually. My husband was a fire fighter for the Forest Service, but not a smokejumper, which is why we originally purchased the book. However, I fell in love with this tale that covers a tragedy in almost classic epic style, combined with the mystery story of the sc......more