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Great Book!

Revisado: 02-17-25

The author has a great sense of humor! He liberally uses sarcasm, which is not “whining” as another reviewer said, and I personally think he’s hilarious. Not everything suits everyone, and ihe is honest about what doesn’t suit him. What was he supposed to do, lie and pretend to love it? The military can be a goofy, pretentious institution that takes itself too seriously. And who wants to read a book which says “I got along with meveryone and it was great and we were all best friends.” Generally speaking, the most interesting people in the world, the 1/1000th of 1% of people who tend to write books, don’t play well with others. They are oddballs, outcasts, misfits, freaks, weirdos … they are different, and thank god for them because they make the world a far more interesting place. They don’t tend to get along swimmingly with the normals. If this guy were like everyone else, we’d wouldn’t;t be reading or listening this book, after a,l, the other sailors on his boat didn’t write one, He was also quite young. It takes awhile to find your place in the world sometimes.

So whine on my friend, just promise to let listen along because I totally get it. Maybe it takes one to know one?

Anyway, great book, very interesting, and pretty funny too.

Thanks for publishing this!

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Great Book, Awesome Narrator

Revisado: 11-29-24

The book was much better than I’d anticipated. I never really get tired of D-Day stories and I always enjoy tank books. I especially liked Roger Clark as narrator. He really made the book better, IMHO. He’s a talented voice actor (great as Red Dead Redemption) and I’d really like to hear more stuff by him.

P.S. Just read the other review by the reader calling him a “fake Brit”. Seriously? Roger is effing awesome! And I just read that he’s a dual US-Irish citizen. Didn’t sound fake to me. Unless you are pretentious enough to obsess over how someone pronounces “threepence” (assuming you even know what that is, because I for one do not), I think you’ll enjoy it.

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Excellent

Revisado: 08-23-24

One of the best books in its class. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a bit moralizing and anti-German-propagandistic , but not ridiculously so like many books. Highly recommended.

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Very Enjoyable

Revisado: 08-11-24

There were 100+ German pilots with 100+ kills. The top Allied ace had 40 kills. That the German pilots were the best in the world by an order of magnitude isn’t really disputable. Yet, every book I read by the Allies has them effortlessly shooting down Huns left and right. As they came to find out, Allies tended to exaggerate up to tenfold after missions. This guy similarly was shooting down Germans left and right. Were all of them accurate? In his case, it appears that they were. Well done. This guy should be more well-known than he is. I enjoyed the book a great deal. 5 / 5 / 5

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I listened to it all in one day

Revisado: 07-29-24

It was that good. Wonderful book, I only wish it were longer. Heroes, all of them to the last man.

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Great Book, Excellent Narration

Revisado: 05-10-24

Very interesting account of the 352nd from a perspective we rarely hear. I really enjoyed the book. I’m not sure what kind of incredible standards other listeners have, but the narrator did a really good job in my opinion. He annunciated well, his pace was superb, and his voice was very pleasing to listen to. I don’t know if the German accent was spot-on and I don’t really care. I only speak English and if I can understand the information that is being conveyed, I am good. If real Germans speak with a certain inflection or emphasis … well, okay … cool. I don’t expect non-Germans to speak that way, though, and most English-speakers are not German. Get the German audiobook if that level of authenticity is your thing, otherwise, you’re going to get a non-German sounding things out phonetically. Seems reasonable to me, and dare I say, as a non-German, it’s much easier for me to understand when the narrator speaks like I would if I attempted to read it.

But the notion that the narrator “destroyed” the book is really unfair. In my opinion, he did absolutely no such thing, and in fact made the book more enjoyable for me,

I guess opinions are as varied as the people that hold them.

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Excellent Book

Revisado: 04-02-24

This was an excellent book authored by a man who did nothing wrong and has nothing to apologize for. He certainly owes no repentance to the brainwashed masses who uncritically believe what they are told … so long as it aligns with what they want to think. That this man has more courage in his pinkie than they do in their entire bodies, which is not something they want to think about. That so much of the victors technological advances only exist because they pilfered it them Germany is not something they hear very often. Nor do they like to read books which explain that Allied soldiers were significantly more likely to rape women in conquered lands than Germans. How often do you hear them apologizing for such things? Yet, every German soldier is supposed to prostrate himself before the self-righteous readers who love nothing more than to read about the heroic goodness of America the land of the Corporate Conquerers.

If this sounds like you, then this book is probably not for you. It’s just going to make you angrier and even more insecure. The author does not concern himself with boosting your self-esteem. This will upset some of you. If someone humanizes the Krauts, then this might make you question certain things. That is certainly not what you are here for. Fear not, though, Audible is full of Righteous American Mythology, and you have literally hundreds of opportunities to borrow some self-esteem by reading, yet again, about a victory you had no hand in winning, and most likely never could. There’s a reason so many books are written about the same relatively-short period of history. It’s makes people feel good to read about it, and anything that even suggests that all Germans weren’t monsters breaks the immersion.

It’s okay, they can’t all be for you.

If you are one of those who take great comfort in the ‘all Germans should be ashamed of themselves’ trope, then skip this one. This man is a hero in my book, his pride is well-earned, and I was relieved to find that he didn’t take the cheap route out and publicly flog himself to try to win over an audience that expects exactly that.

This is a better man than the majority of you will ever be, and he owes you no self-flagellation. Kudos to him for not giving it to you. I wish more German authors would do the same,



Narration was superb. End of Chapter 16 was especially so.

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Great Book, Narration’s Fine

Revisado: 02-20-24

I really liked this book, great D-Day stories from the German POV. Lots of things you’ve likely never heard before. I actually liked the narrator. Not sure what the hate is about there, but it seems exaggerated imho. I think he did a very good job.

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A Masterpiece

Revisado: 12-20-23

The author, who just passed away in 2022, touched the lives of millions with his book. A book which will live on indefinitely. I own hundreds of audiobooks. This one is my favorite.

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Great Book, Fantastic Narration by Tom Parker

Revisado: 10-15-23

The book is good by itself, but the narrator really improves upon it a great deal. His ability to separate the characters and make them identifiable by voice makes it so much more enjoyable. Superb all around.

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