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This is a silly book

Revisado: 04-30-25

Interesting premise but characters are all way over the top, narrator sounds like he's suffering from a terrible anxiety attack throughout the book.

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Author's rhetoric needs to be toned down

Revisado: 04-29-22

This is a very interesting and important subject. However, the author writes as though every historian who has previously written on this topic is a fool. He speaks very disrespectfully of other historians as well as many historical figures who were actually involved in the decrypting work (just as one example, he describes one decoder's skills as "being adequate only for reading smoke signals). In addition, he never tires of telling us how many, many documents he has read. It makes it very difficult to take the book seriously as it often sounds more like a pompous screed. The subject is interesting, the performance is good, but the author needs to tone down his rhetoric

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Story largely untold

Revisado: 08-25-19

Most histories of this period usually deal with the Beer Hall Putsch in a paragraph or two. This book covers the period immediately before and after the Putsch. Most importantly, it covers Hitler's trial in great detail. An important contribution to the literature of Hitler's formation and rise and to the mindset of many German civilians and military men in the 1920's.

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Simon Vance is the best

Revisado: 12-28-14

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Simon Vance is my favorite narrator, fiction or nonfiction. Terrific job with the pronunciation of innumerable Chinese names and places. A wonderful book on an all-too-often forgotten part of the Second World War.

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Interesting and fun . . .

Revisado: 05-24-13

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especially for chemistry geeks, but the narrator should have been given help with pronouncing some common terms.

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Beautiful and moving

Revisado: 12-29-12

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A beautiful and moving description of the wonders of evolution--probably the best description for the general reader that I have come across. It is clearly and cogently written and argued and, of course, is a great resource for anyone wanting to respond intelligently to proponents of I.D. It is much more than this, however. Anyone who wants to experience the beauty and wonder of evolution (more awe-inspiring than any "creation") will want to read this book. The lack of illustrations mentioned in the text somewhat detracts from the experience (a downloadable pdf file would solve this) but this book is good enough to have in hard copy as well audible.

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