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Título: Operaciones secretas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Autor: Jesús Hernández

Narrador: Eladio J. Ramos

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-11-14

Editor: Audible Studios

Calificaciones: 4.5 de 5 de 15 votos

Categorías: History, Military

Resumen del editor:

Las pequeñas historias que se esconden bajo las grandes batallas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: los hombres que perecieron por cambiar el destino del mundo. Si alguien todavía piensa que un hombre de a pie, una persona corriente, se debería resignar y presenciar la Segunda Guerra Mundial agazapado en su casa, está equivocado.

Operaciones Secretas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial viene a refutar esa idea y supone una novedad en el tratamiento del conflicto armado más complejo de la historia. La mayoría de los estudios sobre la guerra tratan con rigor las batallas, los movimientos de cientos de miles de soldados para conseguir el control de vastos territorios, pero esto no debe eclipsar la relevancia de estas pequeñas escaramuzas que dejaban el destino de la contienda en manos de un solo hombre.En esta ocasión, Jesús Hernández reúne estas operaciones que aparecían dispersas en los manuales y pone la lupa sobre ellas para que las conozcamos de un modo detallado y fiel.

Narra las operaciones de un modo trepidante, como corresponde a estas historias de héroes anónimos y astutos espías, y consigue darnos con ello una precisa imagen de estos hombres, la mayoría de ellos voluntarios, que arriesgaron su vida porque confiaban en que cambarían el curso de la guerra y entrarían en la historia. Dividido en cuatro grandes apartados Golpes de mano, Atentados y secuestros, Historias de espionaje y Misiones audaces - , el autor nos desgrana relatos tan fascinantes como el de los esquiadores que frustraron el sueño nuclear de Hitler, planes tan milimétricos como el del intento de asesinar a Stalin e historias pequeñas de hombres anónimos como la del padre de familia francés quien, sin experiencia como espía y sin ayuda, logró cambiar el destino de la guerra y salvar a Londres.Una obra que nos hace partícipe de las pequeñas escaramuzas que tenían la intención de conseguir la victoria de uno u otro bando.

Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Electrizantes operaciones secretas

Otro gran acierto del Historiador Jesús Hernández. Se trata de 17 historias de operaciones secretas durante la segunda guerra mundial, varias de ellas ya se han hecho películas, tales como: Espía por Mandato (estelarizad por William Holden) sobre la vida de Erick (Red) Erickson; el Raid de Alejandría realizado por comandos italianos (Silent Enemy, The Valiant), entre otras.

El estilo es muy ameno sin que pierda su rigor histórico y la narración es bastante aceptable.

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Title: December 7, 1941

Subtitle: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor

Author: Gordon Prange

Narrator: Dennis Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

With all the dramatic listenability of a novel, Prange provides a richly detailed, chronological account of the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Advertising in Army, Navy, Air Force Times, Military History, and World War II magazines.

Members Reviews:

History in the first person

History comes alive as the author builds upon the work of other to bring a turning point in American history alive

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Title: Barksdale's Charge

Subtitle: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

Author: Phillip Thomas Tucker

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

On the third day of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee launched a magnificent attack. For pure pageantry it was unsurpassed, and it also marked the centerpiece of the war, both time-wise and in terms of how the conflict had turned a corner - from persistent Confederate hopes to impending Rebel despair. But Picketts Charge was crushed by the Union defenders that day, having never had a chance in the first place.

The Confederacys real "high tide" at Gettysburg had come the afternoon before, during the swirling conflagration when Longstreets corps first entered the battle, when the Federals just barely held on. The foremost Rebel spearhead on that second day of the battle was Barksdales Mississippi brigade, which launched what one (Union) observer called the "grandest charge that was ever seen by mortal man".

Barksdales brigade was already renowned in the Army of Northern Virginia for its stand-alone fights at Fredericksburg. On the second day of Gettysburg it was just champing at the bit to go in. The Federal left was not as vulnerable as Lee had envisioned, but had cooperated with Rebel wishes by extending its Third Corps into a salient. Hoods crack division was launched first, seizing Devils Den, climbing Little Round Top, and hammering in the wheatfield.

Then Longstreet began to launch McLaws division, and finally gave Barksdale the go-ahead. The Mississippians, with their white-haired commander on horseback at their head, utterly crushed the peach orchard salient and continued marauding up to Cemetery Ridge. Hancock, Meade, and other Union generals desperately struggled to find units to stem the Rebel tide. One of Barksdales regiments, the 21st Mississippi, veered off from the brigade in the chaos, rampaging across the field, overrunning Union battery after battery. The collapsing Federals had to gather men from four different corps to try to stem the onslaught.

Barksdale himself was killed at the apex of his advance. Darkness, as well as Confederate exhaustion, finally ended the days fight as the shaken, depleted Federal units on their heights took stock. They had barely held on against the full ferocity of the Rebels, on a day that decided the fate of the nation. Barksdales Charge describes the exact moment when the Confederacy reached its zenith, and the soldiers of the Northern states just barely succeeded in retaining their perfect Union.

Members Reviews:

Disappointed

Would you ever listen to anything by Phillip Thomas Tucker again?

I doubt it.

What does Grover Gardner bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

The ability to "read the book" while working...I do like Grover Gardner as a narrator and have many books read by him.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Barksdale's Charge?

I would've cut a lot actually. First I'd point out that the author is contradicting himself in the main premise of the book as well as facts. An example of fact, he mentions the fact (multiple times) that the Mississippi brigade was defeated at Malvern Hill and also at Fredericksburg (during the Chancellorsville campaign), both previous to Gettysburg.

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Title: Pacific Payback

Subtitle: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway

Author: Stephen L. Moore

Narrator: Don Hagen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-13-14

Publisher: Gildan Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 89 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific....

But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America's Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below.

The next six months, from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway - a dark time during which the Japanese scored victory after victory - this small band of aviators saw almost constant deployment, intense carrier combat, and fearsome casualties. Many were killed by enemy Zero fighters, antiaircraft fire, or deadly crash landings in the Pacific, while others were captured and spent years in POW camps. Yet the Enterprise's Dauntless crews would be the first to strike an offensive blow against Japanese installations in the Marshall Islands, would be the first to sink a Japanese warship, and would shepherd the Doolittle Raiders' bombing of Tokyo.

Not until Midway, though, would Dauntless crews get the chance to settle the score. In June 1942, Japan mobilized the best of its Navy to draw out the smaller American carrier fleet for a final showdown designed to destroy the U.S. Navy once and for all. What they didn't anticipate was the gutsy dive-bombing pilots and gunners whose courage and skill would change the course of World War II.

Drawing on dozens of new interviews and oral histories, author Stephen L. Moore brings to life inspiring stories of individual sacrifice and bravery - and the sweeping saga of one of America's greatest triumphs.

Critic Reviews:

"Deeply researched and well-written,

Pacific Payback is by far the most detailed account of U.S.S. Enterprise's dive-bombers, and their decisive role at the Battle of Midway." (Jonathan Parshall, co-author of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway)

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Title: The Trigger

Subtitle: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

Author: Tim Butcher

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-12-14

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost 100 years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918 and that proved fatal for empires and a way of ruling that had held for centuries.

The Trigger tells the story of a young man who changed the world forever. It focuses on the drama of the incident itself by following Princip's journey. By retracing his steps from the feudal frontier village of his birth, through the mountains of the northern Balkans to the great plain city of Belgrade, and ultimately to Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding of Princip and makes discoveries about him that have eluded historians for a hundred years. Traveling through the Balkans on Princip's trail, and drawing on his own experiences there as a war reporter during the 1990s, Butcher unravels this complex part of the world and its conflicts, and shows how the events that were sparked that day in June 1914 still have influence today. Published for the centenary of the assassination, The Trigger is a rich and timely work, part travelogue, part reportage, and part history.

Members Reviews:

Good, but not what I was looking for

This book is not what I thought it was going to be. From the title, I assumed that there was some sort of hunt after Gavrilo Princip. I was expecting a carefully plotted assassination, followed by a daring escape and concluding with some brilliant detective work to bring the man to justice. In reality Gavrilo is caught immediately. There is no hunt. Instead the author uses the word hunt as a metaphor for his journey to understanding about Gavrilo Princep and modern Bosnia. I think that more than half of the history in this book has nothing to do with WWI, or Gavrilo, and instead is more about the 1990s and the civil war between the Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats, and Bosnian Muslims. If you are looking for a book about those things this is the book for you; it is well written with good emotion and many interesting insights. The narration went unnoticed, which is a compliment. In the end the author does tie everything back to Gavrilo Princip, which was fascinating, but on the whole this is not the book I was looking for.

I liked this book

A while ago, I bought an audiobook that meticulously detailed every event of the Italian theater of war in World War 2. I cannot remember one, lasting image or fact from that book. So, what you have here is a non-typical book about a historical figure- Gav Principe. It's more of a travelogue and stream-of-consciousness with historical facts thrown in. In the beginning, I was kind of thrown off but I am glad I stuck with it. Personally, I retain knowledge better from a book like this. I found it to be very rich. And since I was not born in the UK, I found the author's musings about the first world war and its effects on his home town and family rather interested. If you want a straightforward history book about the assasin, don't get this. But I liked the book very much and almost anything Gerard Doyle turns into gold anyway.

Riveting tale

Tim Butcher presents a balanced portrait of the trigger for the first world war.

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Title: American Arsenal

Subtitle: A Century of Waging War

Author: Patrick Coffey

Narrator: Dennis Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-03-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

When America declared war on Germany in 1917, the United States had only 200,000 men under arms, a 20th of the German army's strength, and its planes were no match for the German air force. Less than a century later, the United States today has by far the world's largest military budget and provides over 40% of the world's armaments.In American Arsenal Patrick Coffey examines America's military transformation from an isolationist state to a world superpower. Focusing on 15 specific developments, Coffey illustrates the unplanned, often haphazard nature of this transformation, which has been driven by political, military, technological, and commercial interests. Beginning with Thomas Edison's work on submarine technology, American Arsenal moves from World War I to the present conflicts in the Middle East, covering topics from chemical weapons, strategic bombing, and the nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union, to "smart" bombs, hand-held anti-aircraft missiles, and the Predator and other drone aircrafts. Coffey traces the story of each advance in weaponry from drawing board to battlefield, and includes fascinating portraits of the men who invented and deployed them:

Coffey also examines the increasingly detached nature of modern American warfare - the ultimate goal is to remove soldiers from the battlefield entirely - which limits casualties (211,454 in Vietnam and only 1,231 in the Gulf War) but also lessens the political and psychological costs of going to war. Examining the backstories of every major American weapons development, American Arsenal is essential listening for anyone interested in the continuing evolution of the U.S. defense program.

Members Reviews:

An Excellent Review of 20th Century Weapons Systems

For WWI and WWII history fans, this book adds an essential element to these complicated conflicts. The chapters on the development of the Norden bombsight and Napalm are especially detailed and complete. The author excels, however, in his description of the people behind these weapons systems. Curtis LeMay is shown to be less the crazy general, as depicted in the popular press of the 1960's and 1970's and more of a warrior dedicated to winning any conflict. Glenn Seaborg and Edward Teller are revealed to be intelligent men but far too interested in celebrity and recognition. Patrick Coffey has written a fine addition to any military history collection.

Lessons for the future

Wow! Pat Coffey provides the back-stories to our current realities, and they are neither reassuring nor comforting. The surprising thing we learn is that somehow we have survived our own insecurities and failings. Hopefully we use these examples in the future to think longer term and as a single entity bound to this one, small, fragile world.

Fun AND non-fiction

Another great read by Coffey. With his writings I don't need to decide if I want relaxing entertaining read or non-fiction with a bit more depth and perhaps learn a few things. With Coffey's work you seem to get both.

Engrossing, disturbing, and very readable

Patrick Coffeyâs well-researched and well-written book provides an enlightening and unnerving look at the technology and the politics of American weaponry over the last century (from submarines and poison gas in World War I to todayâs drones).

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Title: Warriors

Subtitle: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield

Author: Max Hastings

Narrator: Nigel Carrington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 62 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

With an introduction read by Max Hastings. An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of 16 warriors from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings.

Over the course of 40 years of writing about war, Max Hastings has grown fascinated by outstanding deeds of derring-do on the battlefield (land, sea, or air) - and by their practitioners. He takes as his examples 16 people from different nationalities in modern history - including Napoleons blessed fool Baron Marcellin de Marbot (the model for Conan Doyles Brigadier Gerard); Sir Harry Smith, whose Spanish wife, Juana, became his military companion on many a campaign in the early 19th century; Lieutenant John Chard, an unassuming engineer who became the hero of Rorkes Drift in the Zulu wars; and Squadron Leader Guy Gibson, the dam buster whose heroism in the skies of World War II earned him the nation's admiration, but few friends. Every army, in order to prevail on the battlefield, needs a certain number of people capable of courage beyond the norm. In this book Max Hastings investigates what this norm might be and how it has changed over the centuries. While celebrating feats of outstanding valour, he also throws a beady eye over the awarding of medals for gallantry - and why it is that so often the most successful warriors rarely make the grade as leaders of men.

Max Hastings studied at Charterhouse and Oxford and became a foreign correspondent, reporting from more than 60 countries and 11 wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism. Among his best-selling books, Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham Prize, and both Overlord and Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize. After 10 years as editor and then editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, he became editor of the Evening Standard in 1996. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he now lives in Berkshire.

Members Reviews:

Read Warriors

I thoroughly recommend anything written by the author, Max Hastings. It is a well-written book.

Absolutely Fascinating

Would you listen to Warriors again? Why?

Yes

What did you like best about this story?

The chronology, the range of subject and simply the fascinating accounts of various warriors, whose stories Max Hastings felt were worth telling.

Have you listened to any of Nigel Carringtons other performances before? How does this one compare?

No - but he was excellent.

Thoroughly absorbing

A fascinating collection of mini biographies. I was unaware until now that Hastings was such a good writer; he manages to convey both the intensity and confusion of each individual experience while at the same time provide clear and penetrating analysis of what made his subjects tick. Excellent narration.

A good listen

What did you like most about Warriors?

Interesting personal stories from a range of armies and points in history.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Warriors?

No one stands out just a very interesting listen

What about Nigel Carringtons performance did you like?

Yes

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Not really

Any additional comments?

No

A Tour De Force!

Yet another excellent book by Max Hasting partnered with a first class narrator in Nigel Carrington.

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Title: Now I Know: Military

Author: Dan Lewis

Narrator: Nicholas Techosky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

Did you know that Silly Putty is a by-product of World War II-era rubber rationing, or that the Anglo-Swedish War resulted in exactly zero direct deaths? And about the Richmond Golf Club, who posted an addendum to the official rules in case a round of golf was interrupted by a round of bombs dropped by the Nazi Luftwaffe?

Even if you think you have a handle on all things trivia, you're guaranteed a big surprise with Now I Know: Military. This special collection from the Now I Know archives will challenge your knowledge of the fascinating stories behind the world's greatest facts. Now I Know: Military is the ultimate challenge for any know-it-all who thinks they have nothing left to learn about the military.

Editorial Reviews:

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Title: Cover-Up at Omaha Beach

Subtitle: D-Day, the US Rangers, and the Untold Story of Maisy Battery

Author: Gary Sterne

Narrator: Brian Holsopple

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-06-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

The Rangers mission was clear. They were to lead the assault on Omaha Beach and break out inland. Simultaneously, other Ranger units would scale the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to destroy the ostensibly huge gun battery there and thus protect the invasion fleet from being targeted. But was the Pointe du Hoc mission actually necessary? Why did the Allies plan and execute an attack on a gun battery that they knew in advance contained no field guns? And more importantly, why did they ignore the position at Maisy that did? Using personal interviews with the surviving Rangers who fought on the beach and at Pointe du Hoc, The Cover-Up at Omaha Beach presents exceptionally detailed new research that takes the listener into the middle of the action with the Rangers.

Gary Sterne has made a painstaking study of what the Allies actually knew in advance of D-Day, including what was known about Maisy Battery. Maps, orders, and assault plans have been found in US, UK, and German archives, many of which have only been recently released after having been classified for more than 60 years. Radio communications of the Rangers as they advanced inland have been found, and Royal Air Force intelligence evaluations of bombing missions directed at the site have now been released. All these combine to make The Cover-Up at Omaha Beach one of the most up-to-date references on the subject.

Members Reviews:

This book needed a good editor and a new title

I found the format the author chose to write this book frenetic, mixing first hand accounts by Rangers who were present during this battle, original research documentation with his own wandering presentation. I was 80% through the book before the first postulation of the "cover-up" thesis was even exposed beyond the title. At that point, I forced myself to finish this book to see what the point was if any. This is unfortunate since there is a lot of research and factual data assembled; I think the author confused assemblage with analytics because the last chapter still didn't present a cogent argument to support the thesis. There may be something in this book of historically signicance, but someone with a little more knowledge and patience will have to find it. This is not scholarly historical research nor is it an easy story to read.

Another reviewer stated that the particular action was but one of a great number of similar encounters during the D-Day invasion. Perhaps if a broader perspective was taken, maybe this would have been resolved before the "deadline" the author mentioned in his acknowledgements to finish writing the book. He should have spent more time trying to find out why the Maisey site was buried before the end of the war by soldiers similar to the methodology used to solicitate first hand accounts by Army Rangers who were part of the battle. To say this was a cover-up is a stretch when you consider the totality of the D-Day invasion.

The author did an exceptional amount of excellent research

A great read, not only for the discoveries that the author made himself (by purchasing the land in question and excavating!) but gathering the information he did from eyewitnesses. A very good read.

The first half of the book it was written like interviewing people

The title is misleading. What was covered up was an old bunker.

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Title: The Secrets of Station X

Subtitle: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war

Author: Michael Smith

Narrator: Patrick Molyneux

Format: Original Recording

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-14

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

Bletchley 1945: a place where nearly 10,000 people would contribute decisively to the Allied war effort. Their role? To decode the Enigma cypher used by the Germans for high-level communications. It is an astonishing story. A melting pot of Oxbridge dons, maverick oddballs and more regular citizens worked night and day at Station X, as Bletchley Park was known, to derive intelligence information from German coded messages. That they succeeded, despite military scepticism, is testament to an indomitable spirit that wrenched British intelligence into the modern age, as the Second World War segued into the Cold War.

Members Reviews:

Great story spoilt by performance

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

The story of Bletchley Park is so fascinating that any history of the accomplishments is worth reading. Highly recommended.

Who was your favorite character and why?

There really is no "star" in the book. Everyone contributed in their own way.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The reading was very disappointing. Whether it was the fault of the performer or his direction is difficult to say. Although the various accents were commendable, the need to read the quotes in a conversational mode lead to very uneven sentences and some very uncalled for pauses.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Neither! It is a factual book of which the history is only now being detailed.

Any additional comments?

Wonderful story that could benefit from being re-recorded.

Ruined by poor narrator

If this book wasnt for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

Good book, interesting read, but the narrator was very poor.

How could the performance have been better?

Poor accents, not interested in the story, read as though the best thing was to get through it as quickly as possible.

Any additional comments?

Read the paper copy!

Great True Story Spoiled by the Reader

What disappointed you about The Secrets of Station X?

The 'reader' - Patrick Molyneux - has the reading skills of a nine year old. Poor phrasing, lack of continuity, lack of English vocabulary and laughable attempts at accents.

What other book might you compare The Secrets of Station X to, and why?

The House at Poo Corner because Patrick Molyneux would be the ideal reader!

How could the performance have been better?

Patrick Molyneux has no German. This could be forgiven if he'd asked someone about pronunciation and, by the way, he could also have asked someone about pronouncing English words like Cholmondeley.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Anger that the book had been published with such a bad reader and disappointment that such an interesting book has been spoiled.

Any additional comments?

It should be done again with a better reader.

Endured because of the story

This is a great story ruined by poor production and a narration that really doesn't warrant a single star. This is the the worst performed and produced audiobook I have purchased. If the subject interests you buy the real book and avoid this appalling misrepresentation. This narrator needs to learn how to read for an audience and the producers need to ensure names are correctly pronounced.

station x

great factual account but the accent of the reader was distracting.