Speed Kings: The Fastest Men in the World and the 1932 Winter Olympics Audiobook (Free)

In the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage. It was referred to by Aldous Huxley as ‘the one truly modern pleasure’, and one of the fastest and most thrilling methods to attain it was through the brand new sport of bobsledding. Spectacular, exciting and most importantly dangerous, it was by far the most popular event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. It needed a good amount of skill and bravery. And the four men who triumphed at those Games lived the most about Rate Kings: The Fastest Men in the Globe as well as the 1932 Winter season Olympics outstanding lives.

Billy Fiske was an infamous daredevil, blessed with an all natural talent for driving. He would later end up being the initial American airman to perish in the battle – soaring for the RAF. Clifford Gray was a notorious playboy and a new player on both Broadway and Hollywood. Or was he? His identification was a mystery for decades. Jay O’Brien was a gambler and a rogue who, regarding to one ex-wife, forced females to marry him at gunpoint. And Eddie Eagan, a heavyweight boxer and brilliant lawyer, remains the only man to win precious metal at both Summer and Winter season Olympics.

This is their story, of loose living, risk-taking and hell-raising in a day and time of decadence, and of their race against the odds to become the fastest men on ice. We won’t discover their like again. Especially after the world do descend into that second, awful global conflict.

Audiobook recorded from the united states version of text.