This book reclaims September 11, not only for the sake of history but also for the thousands of dreams that were shattered on the morning of September 11, 1973, and for those for whom, as Dorfman recalled, “the world [would] never be the same again.” The horror, confusion and seemingly endless terror in both cases are poignant. In Chile the nightmare continued for 17 years, and as one young Chilean remarked a year after the coup, “It took me a long time to realize that what was happening was for real and not a nightmare.”