Description: Review "[a] nuanced portrait...[the] up-close moments, flashbacks throughout the chronological memoir, make for a compelling ride...into the minds of our three heroes, all in their early 20s, and the chain of events that put them in position to stop what could have become one of the West's deadliest terrorist attacks..." --Washington Post "...a captivating book ...an exciting and gripping tale...Throughout the book, the reader will be struck repeatedly by the ordinariness of the three Americans. There was nothing in their past that suggested they would rise to the occasion so dramatically and successfully when needed. Their actions seem to prove the old adage that heroes are almost always ordinary people who, when confronted with great challenges, respond in an extraordinary fashion. How wonderful to be reminded that all of us have such a capacity." --Christian Science Monitor "[Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone] demonstrated remarkable bravery and acted without regard for their own safety in order to subdue a heavily armed individual who appeared intent on causing mass casualties. . . . [T]heir heroic actions may have prevented a far worse tragedy." --President Barack Obama About the Authors Anthony Sadler is a senior at Sacramento State University, majoring in Kinesiology and Athletic Training. He lives in Sacramento. Alek Skarlatos is a specialist in the Oregon National Guard. A former student of Umpqua Community College, he was recently a finalist on season 21 of Dancing with the Stars. He lives in Roseburg, Oregon. Spencer Stone is a staff sergeant in the United States Air Force. He lives in Sacramento. Jeffrey E. Stern is the author of The Last Thousand: One School's Promise in a Nation at War. He has been named both a Pulitzer Center fellow for crisis reporting and a graduate fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation. Stern's reporting has appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, Foreign Policy, Atlantic, Newsweek, Slate, Time, and New Republic. He has also been featured on PBS News Hour, NPR Morning Edition, and Morning Joe, among others.
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City: Paris
Book Title: 15:17 to Paris : the True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes
Item Length: 9.5in.
Item Height: 0.9in.
Item Width: 7.5in.
Author: Jeffrey E. Stern, Anthony Sadler, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Terrorism, Personal Memoirs, Military
Publisher: Public Affairs
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Political Science
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
