08-10-2014, 08:30 PM
I actually ordered the book myself a month or so ago (after first posting about it here a year ago) and read it in the last few weeks. It's very good, and the table of contents are indicative of the depth of his research. There is a lot of new info and smart, incisive analysis here.
Davidsson's main achievement with the book is to single in on the flight phone calls (while peripherally acknowledging all other aspects of the 9/11 story, so we get the overall context), to parse those phone calls in the context of the ongoing military drills that day, and to convincingly answer a number of extant questions about what exactly happened and what it means to the overall narrative. He pointed out a number of fairly plain and straightforward observations that I'd somehow missed until now. I've read probably 20 or 30 books on 9/11 (all the major ones), have followed the various key blogs and forums, and have seen all the documentaries, but Davidsson's methodical commentary made me stop, pause and rethink a number of things in light of what, to me, felt like fresh evidence. This book is deserving of a larger discussion once others here have read it.
Davidsson's main achievement with the book is to single in on the flight phone calls (while peripherally acknowledging all other aspects of the 9/11 story, so we get the overall context), to parse those phone calls in the context of the ongoing military drills that day, and to convincingly answer a number of extant questions about what exactly happened and what it means to the overall narrative. He pointed out a number of fairly plain and straightforward observations that I'd somehow missed until now. I've read probably 20 or 30 books on 9/11 (all the major ones), have followed the various key blogs and forums, and have seen all the documentaries, but Davidsson's methodical commentary made me stop, pause and rethink a number of things in light of what, to me, felt like fresh evidence. This book is deserving of a larger discussion once others here have read it.