
Empires of the Sky
Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World
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The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky—a story that ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg.
“Genius . . . a definitive tale of an incredible time when mere mortals learned to fly.”—Keith O’Brien, The New York Times
At the dawn of the twentieth century, when human flight was still considered an impossibility, Germany’s Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin vied with the Wright Brothers to build the world’s first successful flying machine. As the Wrights labored to invent the airplane, Zeppelin fathered the remarkable airship, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two types of aircraft and their innovators that would last for decades, in the quest to control one of humanity’s most inspiring achievements.
And it was the airship—not the airplane—that led the way. In the glittery 1920s, the count’s brilliant protégé, Hugo Eckener, achieved undreamed-of feats of daring and skill, including the extraordinary Round-the-World voyage of the Graf Zeppelin. At a time when America’s airplanes—rickety deathtraps held together by glue, screws, and luck—could barely make it from New York to Washington, D.C., Eckener’s airships serenely traversed oceans without a single crash, fatality, or injury. What Charles Lindbergh almost died doing—crossing the Atlantic in 1927—Eckener had effortlessly accomplished three years before the Spirit of St. Louis even took off.
Even as the Nazis sought to exploit Zeppelins for their own nefarious purposes, Eckener built his masterwork, the behemoth Hindenburg—a marvel of design and engineering. Determined to forge an airline empire under the new flagship, Eckener met his match in Juan Trippe, the ruthlessly ambitious king of Pan American Airways, who believed his fleet of next-generation planes would vanquish Eckener’s coming airship armada.
It was a fight only one man—and one technology—could win. Countering each other’s moves on the global chessboard, each seeking to wrest the advantage from his rival, the struggle for mastery of the air was a clash not only of technologies but of business, diplomacy, politics, personalities, and the two men’s vastly different dreams of the future.
Empires of the Sky is the sweeping, untold tale of the duel that transfixed the world and helped create our modern age.
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“[An] exhilarating history of the dawn of modern air travel.”—Publishers Weekly
“To say that [Alexander] Rose’s new book, Empires of the Sky, is about the Hindenburg is to diminish the genius of the narrative Rose has crafted here.”—Keith O’Brien, The New York Times
“An obsessive, decades-long struggle between two equally matched people is always fascinating, and especially when the prize they are fighting for is nothing less than the future of flight. We take the airplane’s defeat of the Zeppelin for granted, but in the Roaring Twenties and Dark Thirties it was anything but, and now, in a world aiming for carbon neutrality, we might even regret who won. Alex Rose is a historian with a scintillating prose style and an eye for the insightful, and often amusing, detail. Whereas dirigibles were heavy, ponderous, and full of gas, this book is the precise opposite.”—Andrew Roberts, author of Leadership in War
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When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt traces the development of the great flying boats as both a triumph of technology and a stirring human drama. He examines the political, military, and economic forces that drove its development and explains the aeronautical advances that made the aircraft possible.
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Never been this disappointed
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De: Robert Gandt
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The Great Air Race
- Death, Glory, and the Dawn of American Aviation
- De: John Lancaster
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
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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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De: John Lancaster
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Freedom's Forge
- How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
- De: Arthur Herman
- Narrado por: John McDonough
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New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman pens this fascinating look at how two businessmen turned the U.S. into a military powerhouse during World War II. In 1940, FDR asked General Motors CEO William Knudsen to oversee the production of guns, tanks, and planes needed for the war. Meanwhile, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser presided over the building of “Liberty ships” - vessels that came to symbolize America’s great wartime output.
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Enlightening. Amazing, Great Narration
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De: Arthur Herman
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The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
- Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
- De: Thomas Kessner
- Narrado por: Bob McGraw
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In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered in America's age of commercial aviation.
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Flawed but Worthwhile
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De: Thomas Kessner
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A Man and His Ship
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- De: Steven Ujifusa
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
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At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America's best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the S.S. United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time when "made in America" meant the best.
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Wonderful
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Beyond
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Travelling at almost 18,000 miles per hour - 10 times faster than a rifle bullet - Yuri Gagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes. From his windows, he sees the Earth as nobody has before, crossing a sunset and a sunrise, crossing oceans and continents, witnessing its beauty and its fragility. While his launch begins in total secrecy, within hours of his landing, he has become a world celebrity - the first human to leave the planet. Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary.
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A remarkable story on many levels
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De: Stephen Walker
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Merlin
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- Narrado por: Chris Courtenay, Philip Pope
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The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The story of the Merlin is one of British ingenuity at its height, of artistry and problem-solving that resulted in a war-winning design.
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Mostly a history of Rolls Royce
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De: Graham Hoyland
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Chasing the Demon
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- De: Dan Hampton
- Narrado por: John Pruden
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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States accelerated the development of technologies that would give it an advantage over the Soviet Union. Airpower, combined with nuclear weapons, offered a formidable check on Soviet aggression. In 1947, the United States Air Force was established. Meanwhile, scientists and engineers were pioneering a revolutionary new type of aircraft which could do what no other machine had ever done: reach mach 1 - a speed faster than the movement of sound - which pilots called "the demon."
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Not at all what it purports to be
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De: Dan Hampton
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Pacific
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- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
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Best-selling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
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Political Asides Have Become Bombastic Didactic
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De: Simon Winchester
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The Arsenal of Democracy
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- De: A. J. Baime
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The Arsenal of Democracy tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a “bomber an hour”. Critics scoffed: Ford didn’t make planes; they made simple, affordable cars. But bucking his father’s resistance, Edsel charged ahead.
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Misleading title
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De: A. J. Baime
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The Bomber Mafia
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- De: Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times best sellers including Talking to Strangers and host of the podcast Revisionist History, uses original interviews, archival footage, and his trademark insight to weave together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in Central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard. As listeners hear these stories unfurl, Gladwell examines one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
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Listen to the same story on his podcast for free
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De: Malcolm Gladwell
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Wilbur and Orville
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- De: Fred Howard
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The Wrights' longest flight in 1903 covered 852 feet and lasted 59 seconds. In 1905, Wilbur flew 24 miles in 38 minutes and the issue was no longer how to fly but how to cash in. Their effort to exploit their invention is a suspense story of the best kind; their voyage into flight and into American history is a gripping tale from takeoff to landing.
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Interesting but not hard to put down...
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De: Fred Howard
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Enola Gay
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- De: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
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Painstakingly researched, the story behind the decision to send the Enola Gay to bomb Hiroshima is told through firsthand sources. From diplomatic moves behind the scenes to Japanese actions and the US Army Air Force's call to action, no detail is left untold. Touching on the early days of the Manhattan Project and the first inkling of an atomic bomb, investigative journalist Gordon Thomas and his writing partner Max Morgan-Witts, take WWII enthusiasts through the training of the crew of the Enola Gay and the challenges faced by pilot Paul Tibbets.
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Poor reader
- De Dee en 04-17-22
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The Dream Machine
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- De: Richard Whittle
- Narrado por: Kevin Foley
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When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid "tiltrotor" called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted it would reshape civilian aviation. The Marines saw it as key to their very survival. Opponents called it one of the worst boondoggles in Pentagon history.
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Innovation runs into government
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Countdown 1945
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- Narrado por: Chris Wallace
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April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents—and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks, and months to follow.
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Chris Wallace killed it!
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Outstanding.
Outstanding- technical and historical review. Particular liked the inclusion and conflict between the aeronaughts of Graf Zepplin and the ultimate competition and replacement by the clipper ships and Juan’s Trippe TWA; the hero Lindbergh and Sikorsky. Once again the wrong side won WW2 and we would have advanced to supersonic transports as desired by Uncle A; Juan Tripp and other visionaries.
The narrator was excellent as well.
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- The Occasional Aristocrat
- 03-17-22
Great narration uneven storytelling
I greatly enjoyed the book, however I felt that the Juan trippe content was almost bolted on as an afterthought. The content is definitely 3-4 zeppelin over trippe. I feel the author could have benefitted by either increasing the portion on trippe or having two books entirely with one each dedicated to zeppelin and trippe.
Regardless great book and a great listen
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- Anonymous User
- 04-04-24
Took long time, but totally worth it
This is a detailed, but easy to listen history of early aviation. Really takes you to the short time in history when giant zeppelins ruled the skies.
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- Smokin Paul
- 05-16-24
Good overview with lots of details.
Very good overview of the history of airships, filled a few gaps. Loved all the details.
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- adam
- 08-10-20
Title is a bit of a misnomer
A comprehensive story of the Zeppelin company and it’s production of airships. Detailed almost to a fault. I would say that about 4/5ths of the story centers on the Zeppelin Company and Hugo Ekenor. The book’s title gives the impression that the story will revolve around the “battle” between Ekenor and Juan Tripp of Pan Am. This is given only limited space and seems to be an afterthought when the book was written. Overall a worthwhile listen but could have been better.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-25-21
A fully engaging well researched and written history of commercial flight
I consider myself relatively knowledgeable of aviation’s history. But this novel by Mr. Rose filled in a lot of gaps and provided a realism of the times, equipment, people and politics. It also demonstrated what people with vision and determination can achieve.
The narration by Mr. Culp kept this long novel enjoyable and engaging.
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- Tommy
- 03-19-24
Had it in my wish list forever
Fantastic listen. The chapter “pirates” about WW1 is some of the most vivid imagery I’ve ever read. Like a movie scene
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- A. W. Einstein Jr.
- 02-22-21
Fascinating
I had no idea that the concept of rigid air ships had been around so long. Never knew that era ships and airplanes we’re battling for long distance air service until 1937. If you’re interested in things that fly or Hover above the earth this is a story you should read.
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- Customer
- 08-31-23
Interest in the Zeppelin? Look no further
Excellent listen, very engaging. Informative without getting lost in the weeds of technical data. Thorough in its presentation of auxiliary details that tell the rise and fall of the airship.
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- singingcowboy
- 09-16-23
History Comes Alive!
This is an excellent story, excellently performed. The author creatively and colorfully reveals the personalities of the movers and shakers in this gripping account of the evolution of passenger flight. The narration is crisp and dynamic. The German accent is not well rendered and could have been completely omitted without diminishing the performance. But overall this is an excellent product well worth the listen.
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