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Fantastic, but take out the voice!

Revisado: 03-01-25

Relaxing, calming, but why the minute long intro that’s really just redundant to what the music is.

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Great story, lots of info, terrible "performance"

Revisado: 01-19-22

After three attempts I finally finished this book. It's a great story, with lots of info about units, movements, planning, strategy and even civilian testimonials. It's a book that offers a full scope of what happened around Bastogne well into January 1945. There's new info in this book that I haven't known/read in other books on the battle.

However, the "narrator" ruins the book and is the reason why it took me a few times to restart and try to get through it. First, his American accent "impression" is brutally bad - just awful and detracts from the overall story. Also, he trails off words, or last syllables of words, The first several chapters he reads too fast, so you'll likely need to slow down the speed. This is truly more of a performance for the narrator - I guess we're supposed to be impressed that he can pronounce these Belgian town with the correct local accent (I assume, but could be wrong based on this terrible American accent"). But, having read several books on the subject and somewhat aware of these town's and hamlet's names (even in my Americanized English for how I'd pronounce them), his pronunciation left me scrambling with constant rewinds; the narrator's performance is overly confusing when it need not be.

Also, he changes the way he pronounces "Bastogne" throughout the book. Annoying.

In short, the narrator makes the reading more about him and his performance than conveying the information in the book so the listener can easily follow along.

Great story, lots to learn here, but better off buying a physical copy of the book and reading it.

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Great detail

Revisado: 12-29-20

Highly detailed overview of a specific aspect of the battle many armchair historians know little about. Most histories provide little on the specifics of what happened to this division in the first days of the offensive, other than that they were overrun. Most of us have read about the Bulge, but this provides the how and why the US forces delayed the Germans in the lead up to the Bastogne encirclement.

I try to read/listen to a book about the Battle of the Bulge every year around Xmas. This is among the very best.

The reader takes some getting used to in his overly (IMO) breathy narration. Could be better, but not a dealbreaker.

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