Nancy Pf

The best book I've read on WWI

Revisado: 01-27-25

Outstanding research, which must have taken hours. Mr. Gilbert skillfully weaves the overall picture of the war on the highest levels with stories of those in the trenches and on home fronts. He includes stories of women, of different nationalities and ethnic groups, as well as those who would lead our world in the future. He also interweaves the beautiful, terrible poetry of the First World War and its authors. This is outstanding.

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Many inaccuracies-do some independent reseach

Revisado: 05-19-24

This book deals primarily with the difficulties of building the infrastructure of transporting the water from the Owns Valley to LA. It pretty well leaves the impression that the San Francis dam failed because of geological factors. It is my understanding that the primary reason the dam failed was because the dam what is designed by a self taught civil engineer – William Mulholland. Although he had used plans for similar dams previously, he made last minute changes to this dam’s dimensions, and failed to realize that changing one part of the plan necessitates adjustment of other parts of the construction of the dam. There is a lot of information ,from reliable sources on this issue. I would encourage you to do some reading on your own on this interesting topic.

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Love and Redemption

Revisado: 12-09-23

An incredibly moving story of love and redemption. Bonus-it’s short! Outstanding narration. I highly recommend.

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More Relevant than Ever

Revisado: 09-17-23

Well written and well-researched. Written in the 1970s about an incident where wildland firefighters lost their lives. More relevant than ever with the extreme fire behavior our world sees too much .

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One of the best historical books I’ve read/heard

Revisado: 06-28-23

History on a human level. This is not a narrative of WWI, but the thought# snd words of those who lived it-without the benefit of hindsight. The author did an outstanding job of finding an extraordinary range of characters in different roles and in different theaters of the war - including those involved in the war in Africa, and the Middle East. Both men and women, members of the military, and civilians are represented. Outstanding. Narration must be unobtrusive. It was a little grating when the narrator changed his voice when quoting a woman. He didn’t sound like a woman,and would have been better to omit this styling.

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Outsanding - This is one you'll binge!

Revisado: 05-13-23

"The Americans" was one of my favorite TV shows. This is apparently the real-life story behind the series. Truth is always a better story than fiction. Outstanding writing and performance of a strong story. You'll want to binge all the episodes at once. You can't interrupt this narrative.

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Extremely Academic and Philosophical

Revisado: 12-20-22

I read quite a bit of Russian Revolutionary History and wanted to learn more about the Government House, which was mentioned in other books. This book is over 45 hours, and it is a good 10 hours into it before they get around to conventionalizing the Government House. The author is extremely knowledgeable, and this book is deep in the philosophies of the millennial apocalypse, Judaism, Protestantism, Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, capitalism, the Reformation, puritanism, Calvinism, de-kulakization, de-Cossackization, Christianity, and more than I can even remember. He also goes into quite lengthy details on Soviets plays and books. He inserts several series of letters from the period into the book, which are apparently unabridged. This is one time I wish I had the hard copy to find out the provenance of these letters. He doesn't touch on Orthodoxy, Tsarism, and Autocracy, which must certainly be key elements of everything the Revolution and the new Socialist state threatened to destroy, but in some ways, it became. It's a very dry book on an interesting subject. The narrator had a bass note to his voice that was a little grating. Would I recommend this book? No. There are other books on this subject that are far more interesting.

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Recommended Read

Revisado: 11-15-22

Although the author never met Tim Samaras, he paints a wonderful portrait of the man - his genius, obsessions, strengths, and flaws. For that matter, every "character" in the book is portrayed sympathetically with their own strengths and weaknesses. The science of meteorology is intense, but as a reader, you never feel intimidated by the science. It's a short book and definitely worth the time. Bonus - I was surprised to find mention of the tornados that threatened my hometown in the book and its importance in the research. I well remember the day the storm chasers descended about 1 pm on our town. You knew just by looking at the crowd it was going to be a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day.

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12 hours of negativity

Revisado: 11-13-22

The author is extremely negative about the royal family, although he did find some positive things to say about Meghan Markle. He certainly has a lot of axes to grind with the royal family. This book was not entertaining or enjoyable in the least.

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20 Hours of an exhausting list

Revisado: 10-26-22

20 Hours of listening to an exhausting recounting of everything he accomplished as Secretary of Defense, Active military, including National Guard and Reserves, working as a congressional aide. Mr.Esper is certainly not a modest man regarding his personal qualities or his service. He did his duty to the country. I thank him for that. I wouldn't recommend this book. It's tedious.

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