Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett

Længde
10T 9M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett—a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II, later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk.

“A reflection on the nature of storytelling itself” (The Wall Street Journal), Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett’s defining moment at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage, so prolonged, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had endured what Plunkett had. After a three-month overhaul and with a reputation rising as the “fightin’est ship” in the Navy, Plunkett (DD-431) plunged back into the war at Omaha Beach on D-Day, and again into battle during the invasion of Southern France—perhaps the only Navy ship to participate in every Allied invasion in the European theatre. Featuring five incredibly brave men—the indomitable skipper, who will receive the Navy Cross; the gunnery officer, who bucks the captain every step of the way to Anzio; a first lieutenant, who’s desperate to get off the ship and into the Pacific; a seventeen-year-old water tender, who’s trying to hold onto his hometown girl against all odds, and another water tender, who mans a 20mm gun when under aerial assault—the dramatic story of each plays out on the decks of the Plunkett as the ship’s story escalates on the stage of the Mediterranean. Based on Navy logs, war diaries, action reports, letters, journals, memoirs, and dozens of interviews with the men who were on the ship and their families, Unsinkable is a timeless evocation of young men stepping up to the defining experience of their lives. “If you were moved by Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, by William Kent Krueger’s This Tender Land…by the values we hold dear, decency, sacrifice, steadfastness, then Unsinkable will take you to a place long dead in your soul, and flood it with light” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers).

© 2020 Simon & Schuster Audio (Lydbog): 9781797118789

Release date

Lydbog: 8. december 2020

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance John Nichol
  2. Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation Richard Snow
  3. Eisenhower's Armies Niall Barr
  4. Burning Horizon: British Veteran Accounts of the Iraq War, 2003 Julian Whippy
  5. The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945—The Last Epic Struggle of World War II Bill Sloan
  6. The First Hellcat Ace Hamilton McWhorter
  7. Leading the Way to Victory: A History of the 60th Troop Carrier Group 1940–1945 Colonel Mark C. Vlahos
  8. Eject! Eject! John Nichol
  9. Everything We Had: A Novel of the southwest Pacific Air War November-December 1941 Tom Burkhalter
  10. Consequences An Intelligence Officer's War David Grantham
  11. The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity Paul Roland
  12. The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War James B. Conroy
  13. V Is For Victory Craig Nelson
  14. What the Taliban Told Me Ian Fritz
  15. Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic Sir Peter Gretton
  16. Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians Ralph White
  17. Infantry Life: Vietnam's Central Highlands, 1966 – 1967 Dennis M. Witt
  18. The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
  19. Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Civil War, June 23 - July 4, 1863 Eric J. Wittenberg
  20. The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman Brian Holden Reid
  21. The Golden Brigade: The Untold Story of the 82nd Airborne in Vietnam and Beyond Robert J. Dvorchak
  22. No Bullet Got Me Yet John Stansifer
  23. The Battle for Isurava: Fighting in the clouds of the Owen Stanley 1942 David W. Cameron
  24. Vatican Spies: From the Second World War to Pope Francis Yvonnick Denoël
  25. The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle Jeffry D. Wert
  26. Visual Friendlies, Tally Target: How Close Air Support in the War on Terror Changed the Way America Made War: Volume I: Invasions Ethan Brown
  27. The My Lai Massacre and Operation Speedy Express: The History of the U.S. Army’s Most Controversial Operations during the Vietnam War Charles River Editors
  28. The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of the Global Sea Trade Nicholas Nugent
  29. Hard Broke: Asymmetric Warfare, Great Power Competition, and Institutional Paralysis Colonel Matthew D. Matter, US Army (Ret)
  30. Fierce Ruthless Warriors Who Shaped Ancient History Vol. I & Vol II: (2 Books in 1) Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, And Attila the Hun Andre T. Smith
  31. Double Agent Balloon: Dickie Metcalfe's Espionage Career for MI5 and the Nazis David Tremain
  32. The Fall of the Third Reich: The Decisions and Battles that Spelled Doom for Nazi Germany Phaistos Publishers
  33. Fighting From Above: A Combat History of the US Air Force Brian D. Laslie
  34. Blown To Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders Walter Pincus
  35. Forging the Anglo-American Alliance: The British and American Armies, 1917-1941 Tyler R. Bamford
  36. Sons of the Arghandab: Top Guns in the Devil's Playground Joseph J. Fontenot
  37. America's Forgotten Army: The True Story of the U.S. Seventh Army in WWII - And An Unknown Battle that Changed History Charles Whiting
  38. Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space John Jordan Klein
  39. Peace and Prisoners of War: A South Vietnamese Memoir of the Vietnam War Phan Nhat Nam
  40. The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World Nathan Gorenstein
  41. Day of Infamy Walter Lord
  42. Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac Frank Wilkeson
  43. Stonewall Jackson: A Biography Donald A. Davis
  44. The Vietnam War: The History of America’s Most Controversial War Charles River Editors
  45. Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist Jennet Conant
  46. Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum Michael O. Riley
  47. America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation David Goldfield
  48. Cowboys and Gangsters: Stories of an Untamed Southwest Samuel K. Dolan
  49. The Prison Guard's Daughter: My Journey Through the Ashes of Attica Deanne Quinn Miller

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis