The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes. One Goal. And Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
Written by Neal Bascomb
Narrated by Nelson Runger
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Neal Bascomb
NEAL BASCOMB is the national award–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Winter Fortress, Hunting Eichmann, The Perfect Mile,Higher, The Nazi Hunters, and Red Mutiny, among others. A former international journalist, he is a widely recognized speaker on the subject of war and has appeared in a number of documentaries. He lives in Philadelphia. For more information, visit http://nealbascomb.com or find him on Twitter at @nealbascomb.
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Reviews for The Perfect Mile
20 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good retelling but gets off-puttingly preachy about how amateur athletics are a more pure form of sport.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Great story but frustrating technical glitches with jumps and the loss of whole scenes including the last two minutes of the key Vancouver race!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very well written and narrated. Amateur atheletes of that era were a breed apart! I loved the "author talks" interview between the narrator and the author at the end of the audiobook. The last part of the epilogue and the interview gave a very good modern perspective to the events that happened in the 1950s.