Young Men and Fire

By: Norman Maclean

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

On August 5, 1949, a crew of 15 of the United States 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 these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for 40 years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.

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How confusing early fire studies were

It was a very good read and enlightening! I enjoy learning about fire and while it's destroys so much but in doing so, the beauty of the green carpet of grass that comes back in the best of conditions and realization that some organisms need fire to be it's best.

SAMS required read. Doctrine Man reccommended.

i thought the audio version was well done. the story is a great study in team composition and communication.

A masterpiece by Maclean

This is a book I will forever keep on my audible shelf! The prose and narrative was amazing! A great performance! It should be a mandatory read/listen for any student of natural resources and American Western history.

The best book I've experienced in years

If you like the outdoors and understanding man's place in it, you will love this book. it's a story, meticulously researched and reconstructed by Norman Maclean. Thirteen young men, "smokejumpers," parachuted to the edge of what became a massive fire that devoured almost all of them. Maclean writes with controlled passion about this catastrophe, how it happened and lessons it offered future wildfire fighters. Maclean's humanity, his literary mastery and his ease with science and humanity in equal measure all make for a compelling story.

Poetic, Somber, and fantastically narrated

wildly vivid and descriptive journey through a historic tragedy for the Smoke Jumpers given a delightful breathe of fresh life through incredible narration. complex sentence and themes are read perfectly.