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Panzer Commander
- The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
- De: Hans von Luck, Stephen E. Ambrose - introduction
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 15 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,396
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,225
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,223
A stunning look at World War II from the other side.... From the turret of a German tank, Colonel Hans von Luck commanded Rommel's 7th and then 21st Panzer Division. El Alamein, Kasserine Pass, Poland, Belgium, Normandy on D-Day, the disastrous Russian front - von Luck fought there with some of the best soldiers in the world. German soldiers. Awarded the German Cross in Gold and the Knight's Cross, von Luck writes as an officer and a gentleman.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reads like Forrest Gump ( a fiction )
- De Randall en 11-08-16
- Panzer Commander
- The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck
- De: Hans von Luck, Stephen E. Ambrose - introduction
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
Must have for any history buff
Revisado: 11-25-15
What did you love best about Panzer Commander?
The unique perspective of Colonel Hans Von Luck makes for an amazing read. He is a relic of the aristocratic past, a sophisticated, honorable fossil like Bertrand Russell. He is surprisingly modern when it comes to his interactions with other cultures, the chapters where he lives alongside North African tribesmen shows a surprising respect for other cultures, races and religions that you would not expect from someone in the German Army in the 1940s. Very unique read, and refreshing point of view.
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Story of a Death Foretold
- The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973
- De: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
- Narrado por: Danny Pardo
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
On the fortieth anniversary of revolution and rebellion in Chile, a searching history of the rise and fall of the world’s first and only democratically elected Marxist president. On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed in a violent coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The coup had been in the works for months, even years. Shortly after giving a farewell speech to his people, Allende died of gunshot wounds - whether inflicted by his own hand or an assassin’s remains uncertain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Look at a Historical Tragedy
- De Nathan D. Backlund en 03-01-14
- Story of a Death Foretold
- The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973
- De: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
- Narrado por: Danny Pardo
Repetative leftist dogma
Revisado: 02-07-14
What disappointed you about Story of a Death Foretold?
If you expect history out of this you will be for the most part, left hanging. Rivera will give you a comically in depth, post-modernist, Marxist interpretation of a speech Allende gave, and how it created a new language of protest and blah blah blah, ad nausea. But there is little fact and even less statistics. Opinion, and unfounded declarations of Marxist values are considered prima-facie true, when politics, economics and Chilean history are much more complicated than he wants you to believe.
Would you ever listen to anything by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera again?
No.
What didn’t you like about Danny Pardo’s performance?
It was acceptable.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
It flickered to relevant history from time to time, and did discuss opposing points of view, but very briefly and hesitantly.
Any additional comments?
Another example of how academia is becoming a touchy-feely echo chamber of over-analysis and far-left dogmatism.
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