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How to Build an Aircraft Carrier

The incredible story behind HMS Queen Elizabeth, the 60,000 ton star of BBC2’s THE WARSHIP

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How to Build an Aircraft Carrier

Yazan: Chris Terrill
Seslendiren: Adam James
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Hear the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever warship.

65,000 tons. 280 metres long. A flight deck the size of sixty tennis courts. A giant piece of Sovereign British territory that's home to up to fifty Aircraft. HMS Queen Elizabeth in the biggest ship in the Royal Navy's history and one of the most ambitious and exacting engineering projects ever undertaken in the UK.

But it's her ship's company of 700, alongside an air group of 900 air and ground crew that are Big Lizzie's beating heart. And How to Build an Aircraft Carrier tells their story.

From before the first steel of her hull was cut, Chris Terrill has enjoyed unprecedented access to the Queen Elizabeth and the men and women who have brought her to life. From Jerry Kyd, the ship's inspirational captain, to Cdr Nathan Gray, the first pilot to land Britain's new stealth jet fighter on her deck, Terrill has won the trust and confidence of the ship's people.

How to Build an Aircraft Carrier tells the story of Britain at her best: innovative, confident, outward-looking and world-beating.

© Chris Terrill 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Terrill takes us deep into the bowels of Britain's biggest warship . . . Exhilarating
Celebrates remarkable feats of engineering.
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Great listening. Adam James has a remarkable range of voices from Irish brogue and Cockney rhyming slang to Liverpudlian drawl and a fine Caribbean lilt. Surprised how funny this book is too as well as very moving in places.

Rattling Good Yarn

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Brought back memories of my time on board HMS Hermes, totally gripping and really exciting.

Hermes revisited.

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Interesting insight into the life and times aboard a state of the art Warship. Warts and all

Good narrative

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I have an interest in everything naval, historic and present day and especially British. So it was a pleasant surprise to download this book expecting a technical blow by blow account of how HMS Queen Elizabeth was put together and how she works. This book is not at all like that. It reads/sounds like a story book complete with its own character's and their eccentricities, all with names and different voices and accents mimicked or made up by the narrator. Very believable stuff just like a story of fiction that isn't. That's where the audio book works best. But I have a sneaky suspicion that a lot of it was also available via the 'recent BBC series which I was also avidly glued to. There is also a hint at the end that there is more Big Lizzie adventures to come and I for one can't wait. Top marks.

very proud indeed

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was hugely entertaining and informative and gives a great insight into life at sea on a new ship.
The narrator did a great job also - his voice was clear and fluent. The only negative point for me however was his attempt at accents. Most were ok but there were a couple of real howlers in particular his attempt at a scottish accent which, quite frankly, was horrible. Imagine Scotty from the original Star Trek series only much much worse. If you can’t do an accent reasonably well then don’t do it all would be my advice.
Otherwise this is an excellent listen and well worth diving into.

Great story

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