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Great!

Revisado: 04-28-23

Really enjoyed the stories snd the narration was outstanding. Heinz was amazing, never read sport articles like that before

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Very enjoyable

Revisado: 06-17-20

Really captured the time period and learn a lot thing about that team and era. Very enjoyable

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Great Series

Revisado: 11-15-19

Really enjoyed all three books in the series, listen to them all back to back. Of course it is fiction as so far as the writer is creating conversations that specifically never existed but similar ones might have, There isn't a lot of personal drama or intrigue conveyed in the book, more the conversations pretty much stick to the discussions on current situations and world views of the time. Very well research though, you get a different perspective then old views on the First World War, and the audio narration is great.

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Really make you re-think what your were told

Revisado: 11-09-18

The audio performance was great, I like the change of accents by the narrator. Overall the book it's self was very interesting. I kind thought it was going to be a overly slanted affair in reverse, all in the Kaiser's favor. However, She is not afraid to call him out when he was wrong. However, since so much of history seems based more on propaganda from the time, and the winners writing history, the author is faced with an up hill battle. This forces the bulk of the book making the case in the Kaiser favor which it does well, supported and countered with well thought out examples. Sure some of the examples are likely spin or or propaganda from the time that was in the favor of the Kaiser, but on the whole, there are a lot of facts that seem to be on his sides and Christina Croft does a great job making the case.

The book makes me want to learn more. I am not going to say this 100 percent convinced me, and not blaming Croft but after 100 years it is interesting to get a different perspective. I am not ready to say the Kaiser and Germany were innocent or did not make some mistakes, but at the same time did Britain really want to go to war out of their love for Belgium, or France who had to go war because of a treaty with Russia, who was going to war over a dispute over Serbia with the Austrians, so was France really willing to risk it's nation over that? Wilson who was going to make "the World Safe for Democracy" but in the end abandon his deal with Germany and allowed the victors to take their spoils and continue their reign over their colonial subjects. There has to be more to it, and maybe this does explain some.

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