Description

On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of america Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped in to the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all-but three of those men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered bits of the Mann Gulch tragedy.Young Males and Fire won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992."An impressive drama of writing, a tragedy that pays homage to the dead and offers rescue to the living,. Maclean's look for the reality, which becomes an exploration of their own mortality, is more compelling even than his journey in to the center of the fireplace.