American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11
The horrific events of September 11, 2001 were, you must admit, a triumph of planning: time, resources, personnel, organization. And for the most part, the perpetrators achieved what they set out to do. On the other hand, the responses to those attacks were triumphs of spontaneity: civilians and professionals, trained and untrained, leaping into the […]