The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin by Daniel James Brown

4.36 AVERAGE

_lilbey_'s profile picture

_lilbey_'s review against another edition

5.0
emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced
sweetcaroline76's profile picture

sweetcaroline76's review against another edition

4.0
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

makenzied's review against another edition

4.5
informative inspiring medium-paced
k_hanvey's profile picture

k_hanvey's review against another edition

4.25
hopeful inspiring fast-paced
mwwils17's profile picture

mwwils17's review against another edition

5.0
adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced
I, for one, cannot believe the nazis would try and cheat

brielemongrain's review against another edition

3.0
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring relaxing slow-paced

hazel3's review against another edition

3.75
emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced
jenul13's profile picture

jenul13's review against another edition

3.5
inspiring reflective medium-paced

rhondafuller's review against another edition

4.0
hopeful informative inspiring tense slow-paced
emileereadsbooks's profile picture

emileereadsbooks's review against another edition

5.0
informative inspiring medium-paced
This book has been on my TBR for years and I'm so glad the my Olympic obsession made me pick it up during the Paris games. 

Narrated by the late and beloved Edward Herrmann (Richard Gilmore for any Gilmore Girls fans), this audiobook took me on a journey from America during the depression to Nazi Germany, and had me rooting for a group of rag tag boys who showed the world the epitome of the American dream. 

Rarely does a nonfiction book have so much heart that you feel like the characters are as fleshed out as those in a novel. Impeccably researched, this book includes information gleaned from journals and other personal accounts. The level of detail was really stunning, but did not bog down the storytelling. And we don't just get the story of these boys. We get excellent context of America and Germany at this time and how Germany used it's propaganda machine to fuel it's appearance in this Olympics.

Bonus trivia I learned: bringing the Olympic flame from Greece to the Olympic Games started in 1936 thanks to Nazi Germany. They were determined to put on a show.