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The Catalpa Rescue
- The Gripping Story of the Most Dramatic and Successful Prison Break in Australian History
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in history. Boston, 1869. Members of the Clan na Gael - agitators for an Irish republic - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote gaol on earth, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa, risking his life to rescue the men from the prison, known among the inmates as 'a living tomb'.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrific yarn
- De Garrett en 05-13-19
- The Catalpa Rescue
- The Gripping Story of the Most Dramatic and Successful Prison Break in Australian History
- De: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrado por: Michael Carman
A well-written, well-narrated, gripping story
Revisado: 11-14-24
This may be the single best audiobook I've listened to, and one of the best (true) stories I've ever heard. I can't recommend it enough.
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Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
- De: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,938
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,920
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies. Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ben Rich's life story...but not in that order
- De Allstar en 11-05-16
- Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
- De: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
interesting but wrong on history of stealth theory
Revisado: 03-26-23
The author claims credit for discovering a translation of Ufimtsev's physical theory of diffraction as the spark that started LM's stealth research in 1971. In the same year Ufimtsev published his theory in Russian (9 years prior to its translation into English in 1962) an American--Joseph Keller, whom my PhD advisor studied under--published an alternative theory which is recognized as the original practical means of predicting edge diffraction so far as English-speaking electromagnetic experts could have been aware.
To the author's credit, Keller's theory had a widely recognized flaw which Ufimtsev's did not. This flaw was not corrected until 1974 by Kouyoumjian and Pathak. This flaw would not have been especially apparent to a monostatic radar and would have allowed a decade head start had Keller's paper been identified.
Overall, I'd say this book is not for a geek with extensive knowledge of aerospace technology. It is written by a minimally technical manager-type who gets a lot just a little bit wrong. Not so much that I would not recommend the book if you're either non technical or wrong to overlook some of these minute details.
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