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Not a great history of his designs

Revisado: 11-19-22

I am not a big fan of autobiographies, as most lack humility, but I took a chance on this one and proved my instincts. The book could have been a bit better in discussing more of his designs and far less about his ranch life away from work. What I did find interesting is how his concepts of fighter designs never evolved to accommodate other advancing technologies and the US experience in Vietnam

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Boring

Revisado: 10-06-22

Less psychology and insightful than I expected and more on how to run an HR department.

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Long and repetitive

Revisado: 04-10-22

While interesting the 90 min chapters are very slow moving and repeats topics already covered in depth. The book could be less than 20hrs without miss any points. If you like Stephen King’s books, especially the longer ones he has re-issued, you will like Applebaum’s long winded and often irrelevant writing style.

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Good overall

Revisado: 12-16-21

I liked the book and found it informative, however by 2021 it seems a bit dated and could benefit from some updates through footnotes. I also feel there is a greater validity to the author’s opinions as he is a German academic and does not seem to be pushing a specific policy proposal that the nations most at risk of a terror attack need to seek

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Good overall listen

Revisado: 10-22-21

Obviously the book gives much better depth to the story than the movie of the same name and reminds entertaining. It does a very good job of summarizing both Powers book and Donovan’s of these events. I think I would have like a bit more discussion of these first of their kind negotiations and how they affected later negotiations of the next three decades.

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Very good info in a great structure

Revisado: 09-30-21

The book is very good overall and really liked the structure of many short chapters to make it easy to reference again without having to use book marks. The author realistic in his presentation of the material, he is oddly not trying to sell you on his own greatness and how this book will save you, just offing up options that worked for him and likely you as well.

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Good narration of a boring story

Revisado: 04-08-21

I think the author wrote this book for himself to let you know how smart he finds himself (as a Haavaad man) with his idea of relevant quotes before EVERY chapter and righteous he finds himself over the deeds he was apart of committing. His credentials as a former CIA case officer adds no insight to the story as it is only about only one data point— his single case and nothing else

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Not only about free diving, but very interesting overall

Revisado: 07-16-20

The topic of free diving is not really enough to make a book but the other deep water subjects covered and what I think are tangential to the title are interesting.

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Boring

Revisado: 08-26-19

Very dull story made more so by the rather deadpan narration. The author seems to still harbor Nazi sympathies and a notion they were in pursuit of a noble cause years after the fact. In order to follow the story the reader needs to understand a good bit of Wehrmacht structure and ranks in German. I think Guy Sajer’s book is much better listen.

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Boring

Revisado: 08-01-18

Suggest skipping the book; there is less about his deployments and far more about the other parts of his life which are fairly irrelevant to the overall story line of the book to include 30 min of personal thanks to friend which I could care less about.

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