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My Lost Brothers: Hachette Books

Autor Brendan Mcdonough
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 mai 2016

Putem afirma că moștenirea lui Brendan Mcdonough nu rezidă doar în supraviețuirea sa miraculoasă, ci în curajul de a purta vocea celor nouăsprezece camarazi dispăruți în incendiul de la Yarnell Hill. În My Lost Brothers, remarcăm o vulnerabilitate rară în rândul memoriilor despre profesii de risc. Nu este doar o cronică a unui dezastru natural, ci o confesiune intimă despre salvare personală. Înainte de a deveni pompier de elită, autorul se afla într-un punct critic, luptând cu dependența de droguri, iar integrarea în grupul „Hotshots” i-a oferit nu doar o carieră, ci o familie și un scop.

Suntem de părere că perspectiva lui McDonough este unică prin dualitatea sa: el este simultan martorul ocular al unei tragedii naționale și beneficiarul unei transformări umane profunde. Abordarea sa jurnalistică și factuală evocă rigoarea documentară din Young Men and Fire, dar perspectiva este mult mai subiectivă și centrată pe legătura de fraternitate care se naște în fața pericolului iminent. Dacă Norman Maclean analizează tragedia de la Mann Gulch prin prisma timpului și a cercetării, McDonough ne oferă o relatare viscerală, din interiorul evenimentelor, concentrându-se pe sacrificiul de sine și pe trauma supraviețuitorului.

În contextul operei sale, această carte reprezintă pilonul central al identității sale publice, spre deosebire de incursiunile sale mai relaxate în literatura ilustrată, precum Sammy the Surfing Seal. Aici, tonul este sobru, dar plin de recunoștință. Relatarea minut cu minut a momentului în care infernul a capturat echipajul este scrisă cu o precizie care onorează memoria „fraților” săi, transformând My Lost Brothers într-un document esențial despre reziliență și onoare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316308182
ISBN-10: 0316308188
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Hachette Books
Seria Hachette Books


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o poveste autentică despre depășirea limitelor și despre prețul uman al eroismului. Cititorul va descoperi nu doar detaliile tehnice ale luptei cu incendiile de vegetație, ci și o lecție emoționantă despre cum un grup unit poate schimba destinul unui om. Este o lectură despre pierdere, dar mai ales despre datoria de a onora amintirea celor care nu se mai pot face auziți.


Despre autor

Brendan Mcdonough este un fost pompier american, cunoscut la nivel internațional ca fiind singurul supraviețuitor al tragediei Granite Mountain Hotshots din 2013. Experiența sa de viață, marcată de o luptă timpurie cu dependența și de o transformare radicală sub îndrumarea mentorilor săi din cadrul serviciului de pompieri, l-a transformat într-o voce importantă a rezilienței. După evenimentele relatate în My Lost Brothers, McDonough s-a dedicat discursurilor motivaționale și sprijinirii persoanelor care suferă de stres post-traumatic, adaptându-și experiența tragică într-un mesaj de speranță și reconstrucție personală.


Descriere scurtă

The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave.

A
"unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires.

Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the unit, and perhaps seeing a glimmer of promise in the skinny would-be recruit, he took a chance on the unlikely McDonough, and the chance paid off. Despite the crew's skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh's firm but loving encouragement, McDonough unlocked a latent drive and dedication, going on to successfully battle a number of blazes and eventually win the confidence of the men he came to call his brothers.

Then, on June 30, 2013, while McDonough--"Donut" as he'd been dubbed by his team--served as lookout, they confronted a freak, 3,000-degree inferno in nearby Yarnell, Arizona. The relentless firestorm ultimately trapped his hotshot brothers, tragically killing all 19 of them within minutes. Nationwide, it was the greatest loss of firefighter lives since the 9/11 attacks.

Granite Mountain is a gripping memoir that traces McDonough's story of finding his way out of the dead end of drugs, finding his purpose among the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and the minute-by-minute account of the fateful day he lost the very men who had saved him. A harrowing and redemptive tale of resilience in the face of tragedy, Granite Mountain is also a powerful reminder of the heroism of the people who put themselves in harm's way to protect us every day.

Notă biografică

Brendan McDonough is the only survivor of the 2013 fire at Yarnell. Today he is a public speaker and works with numerous nonprofits for veterans, police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services. He lives in Prescott, Arizona.

Stephan Talty is the co-author of A Captain's Duty, which was the basis for the film Captain Phillips, and wrote the New York Times bestseller Empire of Blue Water. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.


Recenzii

"My Lost Brothers is a harrowing story of heroism in the face of natural disaster. It perfectly illustrates the kind of teamwork and camaraderie that informed the legendary squad of hotshots working to save--in this case--their hometown from utter destruction by fire. As perhaps the least likely guy ever to become a hotshot, Brendan McDonough more than lives up to his role after having been taken underwing by Granite Mountain leader Eric Marsh. That he has been able to keep on even keel as the Yarnell Hill Fire's lone survivor, having lost his mentor and his best friends, speaks volumes about his character and is a lasting testimony to the strength of his lost brothers."—Ed Viesturs, bestselling author of The Mountain: My Time on Everest
"Gear up with Brendan McDonough and his brothers in the elite Granite Mountain crew of wildland firefighters. Suspenseful and intense, My Lost Brothers sears to the heart. Nonfiction writing at its best."—Stephen Templin, New York Times-bestselling author of SEAL Team Six and Trident's First Gleaming
"For an East Coast guy like me this book was a real education in wildfires, and the last few chapters were a terrifying lesson in how they can do the unpredictable. I was left with nothing but admiration for the Granite Mountain hotshot crew who put their lives on the line to protect the town of Yarnell."—Michael Tougias, New York Times-bestselling co-author of The Finest Hours and So Close to Home
"This is a new breed of war story, of the citizen soldiers who stand between life and death, the forest and the fire. Through burnt moonscapes, in air choked with ash, they face flames as tall as towers and say, 'You shall not pass.' Powerful and lasting, this is a story of men who gave their all."—Adam Makos, New York Times-bestselling author of A Higher Call
"With his insightful barbs aimed at our increasingly unrealistic ideal of life in the West and the many ways in which wildland firefighters are let down by those who fund and rely upon them, and brutally honest assessment of his struggles with PTSD, McDonough gives readers a unique and bracing literary experience.—Booklist
"The dangers of battling fires on the ground and air are many and McDonough thrillingly explains the terror and panic of the fateful June 30, 2013 tragedy at Yarnell Hill, where all 19 of his crew members perished, leaving him with painful survivor's guilt. But strong support propelled him into a new life of grace and renewal."—Publishers Weekly
"[My Lost Brothers] is sure to captivate readers . . . BrendanMcDonough had a very unusual story to tell, and he has done it well."—Bookreporter.com