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I'm not sure who this is for

Revisado: 04-15-25

I've listened to nearly every Holocaust book on Audible, and I'm baffled by this one. It's written and performed as if it's aimed at children, yet it's clearly not. The author repeatedly going back to "I remember" - I'm not a fan of the way the story is told lets just say. The reader choice is baffling, again it sounds almost like a book aimed at children - and the author writes as if she's still a child at times. The book is all over the place in terms of presentation and frankly I question a lot of the details as it written over 60-years after the events. With that said, I'm not discounting the book - but I really wish it was presented differently and with an appropriate reader.

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Great book

Revisado: 04-12-25

One of the better concentration camp books that I’ve read. It’s not overly traumatic. It tells a story. It gives a good amount of details to the story about why things are happening and what is happening and overall, I found it to be in very impressive tale. The reader did a really good job as well. Overall highly recommended.

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Fun but short

Revisado: 02-20-25

Anthony does a great job of reading his book here - is really entertaining. The first half of the book is really fun with Anthony bashing a bunch of radio and comedian hacks - and telling some behinds the scenes stuff I had never heard before. I wish he got into more background on what happened with Stuttering John - why the feud started, I missed some shows in that era so I really don’t know and it could have helped padded out the length. Still, Ant is on fire for most of this giving an A+ performance. Later in the book he goes into politics and cancel culture - which I hear a lot on the current show so it wasn’t as compelling but wasn’t boring either.

Overall I very much enjoyed it - just wished it was longer.

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A bunch of short stories

Revisado: 12-09-24

I listened to the book over the course of a couple of days - it's more a bunch of short stories than anything else. Most of the stories are probably the length of something you'd read in a magazine for the most part. Overall I found it interesting, but there's not much depth for most of the people involved - which is probably good since I doubt much is known for most of them. No made up dialogue is a huge plus. The reader did a good, professional job. I'd recommend if you're just looking for a light, easy overview.

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This book is stupid

Revisado: 11-27-24

This is one of the dumbest books I’ve ever listened to. It’s just a bunch of dumb made up internal dialogues, told out of order. Truly just idiotic and a waste of time. Really author - you know the internal dialogues of dead people? Oh man is it terrible. Take the worst fiction writer you can think of - and have them write awful ‘gangster’ dialogue and you get this boring nonsense. Seriously avoid this at all costs.

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Woke trash

Revisado: 09-23-24

Did you know Mount Rushmore with a tribute to white supremacy? That’s what this author claims. No wonder audible made this free - it’s just more woke trash.

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About 2 hours of Ben Steele’s story, rest is filler

Revisado: 08-29-24

I’ve read hundreds of WW2 books - and this book is about 90% taken from other books. The story of Steele is interesting - and that part is good, the rest is filler, and often not good filler. The anti-McArthur angle is beyond ridiculous - to the point that they make him the main villain of the story while doing a puff piece on the Japanese commander who was in charge of the death march. It’s a shame someone as interesting as Ben Steele has his name attached to this dud.

I did listen all the way to the end, which is why I’ll give it 2 stars instead of one.

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The left-wing politics eventually overwhelm

Revisado: 08-18-24

When the book is talking about what is happening Vietnam with the French, it's very interesting and compelling - you can tell there's a leftist take on things but it's not overwhelming and doesn't impede the story.

But as the story goes along, as they eventually get to America - my goodness does it go off the rails. Basically everyone on the right is hiding their evil intentions, just pretending to not want the war to expand while secretly doing everything they can to drag America into the conflict. Meanwhile every leftist politician is given the benefit of the doubt. Then you have the God of leftist politics, FDR, who is held up as God. These parts are quite boring, and make you question the accuracy of the rest of the book where I'm not familiar with the background.

Overall the book could have been great - but it just bogs down with cartoon caricatures version of American politicians and the authors framing of events.

Still, the first 15-hours or so of the book are excellent - from there, I strongly suggest you know American politics of the era or you'll leave with a ridiculously skewed version of events.

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You'll learn more from watching movies

Revisado: 06-04-24

Maybe if you're Gen Z or a younger millennial this will be news to you - but being born in the 70s and being raised in the 80s, this is all the same stuff you grew up with. Sure there are new specifics here, but the situations, outcomes, it's all stuff we taught as kids. I guess if you're Gen Z or a younger millennial, perhaps this is new to you, and in that case it's probably 'shocking' - but just go find a copy of TV movie, The Day After, then watch War Games, and you're set.

The author also breathlessly reveals, get this, that we have plans to go to nuclear war! My goodness - how evil and sinister... Hey lady, we also have plans to invade Canada. Just having plans doesn't mean you're going to do it, dummy, it just means you have a plan in case an unlikely situation plays out - or just to give all those paper pushers in the Pentagon something to do.

I seriously have no idea why this book has so many good reviews. I listened to this babble for hours and hours, saying, "yeah, I know" about every 5-10 seconds.

I am absolutely not kidding, just watch some nuclear war movies, you'll get out of it just as much as you get out of this book - and you'll be a lot more entertained.

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It’s like a movie - pew pew pew!

Revisado: 06-01-24

I’ve read hundreds of WW2 books but had never heard of Operation Postmaster, until the movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which was obviously ridiculous (but entertaining) and didn’t have much historical value outside of the fact a mission with those individuals had occurred. So I wanted the real story of what actually happened and I picked up this book - and instead of the real story, it’s basically just the movie, with lots of ridiculous never happened made up dialogue and highly embellished events. For me, personally, I despise made up dialogue in books that are supposed to be based on real events - but others don’t mind, so that’s up to you on if it’s an issue.

I will say the book is entertaining - if you just want some historical (mostly) fiction, then you’ll likely enjoy this. If you thought the movie was fun and wasn’t bothered by the complete lack of authenticity then you’ll also like this book.

I know it sounds like I’m bashing the book - but I listened to the full thing - if I hated it I would have returned it to get my credit back. But I wanted to see where things were going - and get a general overview of events so I can follow up and then find out what really happened.

In any case I wasn’t bored listening to this - just know if you’re a serious history reader this is not even remotely serious history. But if you just want a continuation of the movie, this will do. But understand this is 2% real and 98% legend/myth/fiction.

The reader did a very good job.

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