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Bloody Kharkov I: Bloodied Wehrmacht, Volume 4
- De: Andrew McGregor
- Narrado por: Skyler Morgan
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Fourth book in the WWII series covering the first section of the German advance on Kharkov in 1943. As the tide of war in Russia begins to turn, Leutnant Hausser returns with his depleted and demoralised squad…in the bitter snow, cold and ice that is becoming their home. The battle for survival continues…to Kharkov.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t Even Finish It
- De Seamus Hamrin en 01-28-24
- Bloody Kharkov I: Bloodied Wehrmacht, Volume 4
- De: Andrew McGregor
- Narrado por: Skyler Morgan
Couldn’t Even Finish It
Revisado: 01-28-24
I wanted this to be good. A lot.
It wasn’t.
The material lacks sufficient depth in everything from setting, to story, to characters. I can best describe the story as something a high schooler would narrate as an RPG game. It flits from one scene to another, uses the same terms and lines repeatedly, doesn’t fill in very much detail, and has unlikely situation after unlikely situation. This feels like it was written by a “fan of WW2” rather than anyone with a deep historical knowledge of the period.
To make matters worse, the narration is awful. He comes off as a twenty something narrating a story for local library hour. No depth of emotion, no variation in voice, rhythm, timbre, anything.
You may not agree with my opinion but I’d strongly suggest listening to the sample first because that’s what the whole thing sounds like.
Painful listen, soon to be deleted from my library. That’s one credit I’ll never get back.
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The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943
- The War in the West, Book 2
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 24 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 195
By June 1941, Germany's war machine looked to be unstoppable. The Nazi blitzkrieg had taken Poland, France, and Holland with shocking speed. The Luftwaffe had bombed London, while German U-boats wrought havoc on Allied shipping on the Atlantic. And yet, as James Holland shows at the start of The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943 - the second volume in his magisterial narrative of World War II in the West - cracks were already appearing in Germany's apparent invincibility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Third volume
- De PG Scott en 08-04-18
- The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943
- The War in the West, Book 2
- De: James Holland
- Narrado por: David Baker
A Fresh Take On A Familiar Era
Revisado: 02-11-23
James Holland brings a stunning new way of looking at WW2 in this book. I’ve read a lot on WW2, watched a lot of documentaries, but this is an angle I’ve never seen before. Holland looks at the war from the highest level, demonstrating how the economy of war played such a major part of the whole event. Interspersed with this high level view is excellent information about battles in North Africa, the Atlantic, and the Eastern Front. Interspersed with all of this is tremendously personal stories of folks at all levels. In total, this book gave me an entirely new appreciation for an era I’m already fascinated by and I learned A LOT. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in WW2.
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And Then There Were None
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Dan Stevens
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,964
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17,934
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17,881
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen". At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead. Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one...one by one they begin to die. Who among them is the killer? And will any of them survive?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dan Stevens is genius
- De Markie Ross en 09-17-15
- And Then There Were None
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Dan Stevens
Excellent performance of a real classic.
Revisado: 06-10-22
This story is one of my favorite mystery tales and Dan Stevens does a wonderful job of it. He quickly goes between the devil-may-care voice and personality of Marston, to the slow and ponderous musings of Justice Wargrave, while nailing the voices and personalities of Ms Brent and Vera Claythorne, and everyone in between. This was a truly enjoyable listen and I shall definitely be coming back to it.
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