INTREPID The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship

Coinciding with this book's publication, the USS INTREPID—the legendary aircraft carrier used in WWII and Vietnam—has been renovated and returned to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City. Another timely fact is that Republican presidential candidate John McCain contributed the foreword—appropriately so, since McCain's grandfather served on the vessel twenty years before McCain himself flew missions off the ship in Vietnam. Although McCain doesn't read his own introduction in the audio version, Tom Weiner does an ample job transmitting not only McCain's story, but that of dozens of others like him who also served on the legendary vessel throughout the decades. Weiner's warmth and presence lend themselves to this story of guts and glory. J.S.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2008]