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On June 29, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I, nearly seventy cyclists embarked on the thirteenth Tour de France. From Paris, the war-weary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country’s border, through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front. Traversing a cratered postwar landscape, the cyclists faced near-impossible odds and the psychological scars of war. Most of the athletes had arrived straight from the front, where so many fellow countrymen had suffered or died.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Encyclopedia, Anyone?
- De Sheryl en 08-24-21
De: Adin Dobkin
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Driving with the Devil
- Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
- De: Neal Thompson
- Narrado por: Buz Mckim
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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Today’s NASCAR is a family sport with 75 million loyal fans, which is growing bigger and more mainstream by the day. Part Disney, part Vegas, part Barnum & Bailey, NASCAR is also a multibillion-dollar business and a cultural phenomenon that transcends geography, class, and gender. But dark secrets lurk in NASCAR’s past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I had to quote Stop listing unquote
- De Joseph en 07-25-15
De: Neal Thompson
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How to Build a Car
- De: Adrian Newey
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,530
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,338
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,337
The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian's unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and the races in which he's been involved.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Snooze fest
- De moo en 02-09-20
De: Adrian Newey
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The World's Fastest Man
- The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero
- De: Michael Kranish
- Narrado por: David Sadzin
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 132
In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure - the remarkable Major Taylor, the Black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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before there was Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson
- De Leo en 07-29-19
De: Michael Kranish
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Enduring Courage
- Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 234
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 230
At the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies—the car and airplane—took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these dangerous contraptions and pushed them to unexplored extremes became new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace. No individual did more to create and intensify these raw new roles than the tall, gangly Eddie Rickenbacker, who defied death over and over with such courage and pluck that a generation of Americans came to know his face better than the president's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true ace, and an example for us all.
- De Gotta Tellya en 08-20-14
De: John F. Ross
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To Dakar and Back
- 21 Days Across North Africa by Motorcycle
- De: Lawrence Hacking, Wil De Clercq
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Recounting the three weeks of blood, sweat, and tearsthat make up a 7,000 mile journey from the glitzy streets of Paris to the hinterland of northwestern Africa, this incredible tale highlights the most arduous and notorious off-road motorsports event on the planet, the Paris-Dakar Rally. Since its inception in 1979, the rally has attracted more than 3,000 participants from all walks of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great tale, not great narration
- De Catherine Perkins en 07-12-16
De: Lawrence Hacking, y otros
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Three Weeks, Eight Seconds
- Greg Lemond, Laurent Fignon, and the Epic Tour de France of 1989
- De: Nige Tassell
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
For a race as long as the mighty Tour (three weeks of testing the limits of human endurance), to have the ultimate victory decided by a margin of just eight seconds almost boggles the mind. But that's exactly what happened between American legend Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon. After more than 2,000 miles in the saddle, it remains the smallest margin of victory in the Tour's 100-plus-year history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVED IT!
- De Ashley Green en 07-03-23
De: Nige Tassell
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Aussie Grit
- My Formula One Journey
- De: Mark Webber
- Narrado por: Nicholas Osmond
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 214
Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One. In 2010, while racing for Red Bull, he and his teammate, Sebastian Vettel, went head to head for the World Championship. There could be only one winner. Since retiring from Formula One, Mark has concentrated on endurance racing, including the legendary Le Mans 24-hour race.
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2 out of 5 stars
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this story change my perspective of Mark Webber.
- De Neb en 09-01-16
De: Mark Webber
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The Great Air Race
- Death, Glory, and the Dawn of American Aviation
- De: John Lancaster
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
The incredible, untold story of the men who risked their lives in the first transcontinental air contest—and put American aviation on the map.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very entertaining/informative book
- De D. Littman en 12-09-22
De: John Lancaster
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A Race to Freedom
- The Mira Slovak Story
- De: David Williams
- Narrado por: Brian Callanan
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 27
Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air Force, rising to captain by the age of 21. When he could no longer tolerate life under the Communists, he hijacked an airliner and flew across the Iron Curtain to freedom. He outlasted communism, and when it collapsed in 1990, he returned to his home, only to realize his true home was and always would be the US.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Free to live as an American.
- De cosmitron en 06-08-18
De: David Williams
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Out of the Shadow of Greatness
- De: Michael Hembree
- Narrado por: Robert Sams
- Duración: 2 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
The story of NASCAR's legendary racer - newly revised Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s name virtually assured that his life would not be ordinary. Over the past decade, he has fulfilled that destiny. His father, one of the most successful drivers in the history of international motorsports, gave his son more than his name. Dale Earnhardt Sr. placed Dale Jr. in position to follow the footsteps and tire tracks he had left from Darlington to Daytona, from coast to coast, from one championship to the next.
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4 out of 5 stars
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do better research
- De David Thom en 08-05-22
De: Michael Hembree
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The Perfect Mile
- Three Athletes. One Goal. And Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 482
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 278
In the tradition of Seabiscuit, critically acclaimed author Neal Bascomb reaches back to the golden age of sport and crafts an utterly captivating narrative of what may be the most remarkable athletic feat of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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nailbiting, on the edge of your seat
- De Todd en 08-10-04
De: Neal Bascomb
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The Boys in the Boat
- Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 41,949
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37,954
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 37,838
The number one New York Times best-selling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race. Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dear Publishers of Audio Books
- De Lynn en 08-04-14
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Train
- Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World - from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
- De: Tom Zoellner
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Tom Zoellner loves trains with a ferocious passion. In his new audiobook he chronicles the innovation and sociological impact of the railway technology that changed the world, and could very well change it again. From the frigid Trans-Siberian Railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the futuristic maglev trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of man's relationship with trains. Zoellner examines both the mechanics of the rails and their engines and how they helped societies evolve. Not only do trains transport people and goods in an efficient manner, but they also reduce pollution and dependency upon oil.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The world history of trains up to the present
- De matthew en 03-06-14
De: Tom Zoellner
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Ingenious
- A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
- De: Jason Fagone
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel one hundred miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.
- De Shamu from New York en 12-07-13
De: Jason Fagone
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Fins
- Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
- De: William Knoedelseder
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
This audiobook chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling, thereby revolutionized the way cars were made, marketed, and even imagined. Harleys Earl’s story qualifies as a bona fide American family saga. It began in the Michigan pine forest in the years after the Civil War, traveled across the Great Plains on the wheels of a covered wagon, and eventually settled in Hollywood, California.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great report of amazing history but could do without the WOKE lean..
- De joshua Shaw en 07-02-22
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 606
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 551
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 552
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive. For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needs a different narrator!!!!
- De Scott en 06-04-16
De: Neal Bascomb
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Driven
- Inside BMW, the Most Admired Car Company in the World
- De: David Kiley
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
An exclusive look at one of the world's most successful and controversial companies and the mysterious family behind it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting listen
- De jcbird en 01-29-23
De: David Kiley
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The Escape Artists
- A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Neal Bascomb, a New York Times best-selling author, delivers the spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageous - and ingenious - breakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Kathleen Wadworth en 04-08-24
De: Neal Bascomb
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The Perfect Mile
- Three Athletes. One Goal. And Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 482
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 278
In the tradition of Seabiscuit, critically acclaimed author Neal Bascomb reaches back to the golden age of sport and crafts an utterly captivating narrative of what may be the most remarkable athletic feat of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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nailbiting, on the edge of your seat
- De Todd en 08-10-04
De: Neal Bascomb
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How to Build a Car
- De: Adrian Newey
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,530
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,338
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,337
The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian's unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and the races in which he's been involved.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Snooze fest
- De moo en 02-09-20
De: Adrian Newey
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Tyrant
- Shakespeare on Politics
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Close for Comfort
- De C. Gross en 05-10-18
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 552
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive. For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needs a different narrator!!!!
- De Scott en 06-04-16
De: Neal Bascomb
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Driven
- Inside BMW, the Most Admired Car Company in the World
- De: David Kiley
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
An exclusive look at one of the world's most successful and controversial companies and the mysterious family behind it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting listen
- De jcbird en 01-29-23
De: David Kiley
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The Escape Artists
- A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Neal Bascomb, a New York Times best-selling author, delivers the spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageous - and ingenious - breakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Kathleen Wadworth en 04-08-24
De: Neal Bascomb
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The Perfect Mile
- Three Athletes. One Goal. And Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 482
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 278
In the tradition of Seabiscuit, critically acclaimed author Neal Bascomb reaches back to the golden age of sport and crafts an utterly captivating narrative of what may be the most remarkable athletic feat of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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nailbiting, on the edge of your seat
- De Todd en 08-10-04
De: Neal Bascomb
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How to Build a Car
- De: Adrian Newey
- Narrado por: Richard Trinder
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,530
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,338
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,337
The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian's unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and the races in which he's been involved.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Snooze fest
- De moo en 02-09-20
De: Adrian Newey
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Tyrant
- Shakespeare on Politics
- De: Stephen Greenblatt
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Close for Comfort
- De C. Gross en 05-10-18
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The Mirror Thief
- De: Martin Seay
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 22 h y 1 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 132
Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in Venice in the 16th century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This book doesn't make a lick of sense.
- De Richard Delman en 05-23-16
De: Martin Seay
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Total Competition
- Lessons in Strategy from Formula One
- De: Ross Brawn, Adam Parr
- Narrado por: Adam Parr, Peter Noble
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever been published. Across four decades, Ross Brawn was one of the most innovative and successful technical directors and then team principals in Formula One. Leading Benetton, Ferrari, Honda, Brawn and Mercedes, he worked with drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton to make them world champions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great insight
- De Marsha en 08-20-17
De: Ross Brawn, y otros
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The Car
- The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
- De: Bryan Appleyard
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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This book celebrates the immense drama and beauty of the car, of the genius embodied in the Ford Model T, of the glory of the brilliant-red Mercedes Benz S-Class made by workers for Nelson Mandela on his release from prison, of Kanye West's "chopped" Maybach, of the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, and even of that harbinger of the end—the Tesla Model S and its creator Elon Musk. As the age of the car as we know it comes to an end, Bryan Appleyard's brilliantly insightful book tells the story of the rise and fall of the incredible machine that made the modern world what it is today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wide-ranging look at cars
- De LD en 03-06-24
De: Bryan Appleyard
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Rush to Glory
- Formula 1 Racing's Greatest Rivalry
- De: Tom Rubython
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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The greatest duel in Formula 1 history: the 1976 season between Austrian Niki Lauda and Britain's James Hunt. As the '75 season ended, Hunt was out of Formula One racing while Lauda was world champion and the odds-on favorite for '76 with a year's contract ahead of him and Enzo Ferrari begging him to sign a multi-year deal. James Hunt, without a drive until Emerson Fittipaldi broke his McLaren contract, grabbed the McLaren drive with both hands and the help of friend John Hogan. The result? Two drivers in an epic 16-race battle across the globe for the '76 title, ultimately decided by a single point.
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5 out of 5 stars
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captivating
- De Jonathan Cardinal en 03-28-16
De: Tom Rubython
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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- De: Henry Petroski
- Narrado por: Matthew Boston
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s - the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great For Understanding How Things Fail
- De Anonymous User en 07-07-21
De: Henry Petroski
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Saving Italy
- De: Robert Edsel
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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When Hitler’s armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind’s greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. On the eve of the Allied invasion, General Dwight Eisenhower empowered a new kind of soldier to protect these historic riches. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes—artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt—embarked from Naples on the treasure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More Personalities than Art Chasing
- De Craig en 01-17-15
De: Robert Edsel
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Faster
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- Tremayne
- 03-31-21
Wonderful
What a great story. For those of us that experience the world of automobiles and racing as an integral aspect of our humanity, this book captures all of it. This was the most joy I have had listening to an audio book in some time. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a keen sense and appreciation of modern history, and a love of cars and auto racing. You will not be disappointed.
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- zzJoezz
- 12-17-20
Great read!
Story was excellent and the narrator did a fantastic job with the car terms and locations!
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- Scott
- 04-25-20
Racing history told incredibly well
Bascomb tells a compelling story that weaves interesting automotive history, just enough history of the time, with character stories that all blend together wonderfully well. A must listen for anyone with any automotive or racing interest. The reader was excellent and only added to the interest. In all one of the best audiobook experiences I've encountered.
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- Michael L. Elkins
- 03-17-23
What a great listen
Bascomb's vivid storytelling x Ballerini's masterful narration = most enjoyable listening experience all while learning something new.
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- James & Jacqueline Lederer
- 09-22-23
Great story on racing history
The flow and content of the story was outstanding. As a racing enthusiast, I was fascinated to hear about the personal and technical aspect of prewar racing culture. The narrator was very clear and had good timing on delivery of sentences.
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- Benchracer
- 08-15-23
B4F1 Not commercial circus reality TV
Real Grands Prix history not today’s made for TV circus. Two VERY Different Things . One a sport, one a spectacle. Both valued by millions.
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- John Hodges
- 07-03-20
Fantastic book!
This is my second Neal Bascomb book. He is a fabulous writer! The performance is excellent too. Enjoy!
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- Nicholas
- 06-15-22
Wow, surprised I’ve never heard this story
More than just a book about racing, this story wonderfully describes the personalities, cars of the golden era of Grand Prix racing, all set against the backdrop of pre-WWII Europe
Amazing story!
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- Vic
- 06-26-23
When history was black and white
Great detail on the early days of speed. The right words bring more color than WW1 and WW2 footage.
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- John
- 05-31-21
non-race fans won't like it
I loved this book, but I think if you bore of the back and forth in racing, or descriptions of the hairpins and chicanes, you won't like it. I found I cared about the people and lived the racing with them. Good writing and narration.
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