American Overdrive
How the United States Out-Built, Out-Thought, and Out-Produced the World in Four YearsBy Paul Mac
Length1h 14m
About this audiobook
In 1940, the United States Army ranked nineteenth in the world, behind Portugal. Five years later it had built the atomic bomb, produced 300,000 aircraft, launched 2,710 Liberty Ships, mass-manufactured penicillin, invented radar systems that changed the course of the war, and assembled the largest amphibious invasion in human history. American Overdrive tells the story of how — through eleven case studies of wartime innovation, from the proximity fuze to the Red Ball Express, from Willow Run to the Manhattan Project. Each chapter follows the people, the decisions, and the organisational design that turned a peacetime democracy into the most productive industrial machine the world has ever seen. This is not a story about generals. It is a story about engineers, factory workers, scientists, and bureaucrats who parallelised everything, tolerated failure, and moved at a speed that still defies belief.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length1 hr 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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