The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
- ISBN-10
- 0307886115
- ISBN-13
- 9780307886118
- Category
- True Crime
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Brendan I. Koerner
Description
Documents the 1972 story behind the longest-distance hijacking in U.S. history, tracing the events of the hijacking against a backdrop of civil unrest and the skyjacking wave of the early 1970s.
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