Young men and fire: twenty-fifth anniversary edition - Norman Maclean

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• 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.
• Alongside Maclean's now-canonical A River Runs through It and Other Stories , Young Men and Fire is recognized today as a classic of the American West.
• This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Maclean's later triumph--the last book he would write -includes a powerful new foreword by Timothy Egan, author of The Big Burn and The Worst Hard Time . As moving and profound as when it was first published, Young Men and Fire honors the literary legacy of a man who gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul.