Peter Westwick Audiobooks

Stealth: engineering, secrecy and the business of the invisible

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

508 listener ratings

Who is Peter Westwick?

Some of the most consequential engineering of the last century was done behind locked doors, by teams who could not tell their families what they did all day. That is the territory Stealth occupies. Peter Westwick’s book sits across the science, technology and business shelves at once, and the overlap is the whole point: breakthroughs of this kind are never purely technical, they are also institutional, financial and fiercely competitive.

The writing is history rather than hagiography. Rival programmes, awkward personalities, the grind of proving an idea that sounds impossible on paper, all of it handled with the patience of a proper historical account rather than a press release. It rewards listeners who enjoy watching a hard problem get solved by people who were not certain it could be.

Peter Westwick in audiobooks

Just under eight hours, narrated by David de Vries, whose steady, documentary register keeps the technical passages clear without draining the drama out of them.

It has drawn a substantial body of listener scores, holding above four stars, a solid record for technical history and a sign that the story carries beyond specialists. No prior background is required; the narrative explains what it needs as it goes. Find the audiobook below.