The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game (The Sports Beat, 5) Free Audiobook Download by John Feinstein
"The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game" by John Feinstein is a riveting audiobook that will take listeners from the game of football to the front lines of war. In this book, John Feinstein tells readers about what it's like to attend the American military academy West Point and how he became an author who has sold millions of books around the world. Readers will be captivated by his story and won't want to stop listening until they've reached their destination--finishing this great audiobook!
John Feinstein's narrates the story of the Army-Navy football game from his perspective. The story follows the investigative investigation into why a Navy player was found dead during the match, on which Captain Billy Morris was leading.
There is an annual rivalry between the US Military Academy and US Naval Academy. This rivalry has been around since 1845 when the first Army-Navy football game was played in Princeton, New Jersey. The Navy school had a lot of success earlier in the season but came up short in their finale against Army which leads to speculation about what led to that outcome by John Feinstein
The rivalry between the Army and Navy has always been an intense and heated one. With the ever changing landscape of national security and military affairs, this rivalry has only grown more powerful as time goes on.
The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game is a nonfiction book by John Feinstein. The book was published in 2007 and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
In the Army-Navy rivalry, you don't want to know what happens. You just want it to happen. It's a mysterious event that creates an inferno of passionate emotion unmatched in any other game—and there's no right way to play it. The Navy team is on the board and has pulled off more upsets in the rivalry than any other team. The Army faithful have their eyes on the ball and yet they have lost more games to Navy than they have won. This book will explain why Army and Navy are so incredibly competitive with one another, how these two legendary teams came into being, what makes them tick, and why they're playing each other twice a year for 71 years now.
Published Date | 2010-09-28 |
Duration | 5 hours 25 minutes |
Author | John Feinstein |
Narrated | John Feinstein |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Kids |
Parent Category | Sports, Mystery & Fantasy |