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God bless the performer

Revisado: 11-12-24

Wow, props to the performer for his excellent Skaven voices…. I bet that hurt to do. I, the reviewer, am adding additional words to this review, to meet the minimum word count…. Taxation is theft.

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Music?

Revisado: 08-31-24

What’s with the random, anachronistic, music at random points of the story? I mean, good job trying something new, but if you’re going to add music to an audio book, add period appropriate, and geographically appropriate music to the book. For some reason the publisher chose to inject 19th century romantic era music into a novel about a battle that took place in the early 1400s.

Story itself was fantastic, of course. It’s Bernard Cornwell, after all.

The performance was superb. I love when the publisher matches the right voice to the right story. It felt like I was having drinks in a tavern with a man who fought alongside the main character.

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Gripping and informative read

Revisado: 07-23-24

The blinkist review:
1. Ground 0 of Nuclear explosions are hell on earth.
2. There’s a series of monitoring assets designed to detect nuclear launch
3. The speed of missile flight negates any benefit provided by early warning systems.
4. There’s a very intricate system of checks and balances that exists for the President to use nukes.
5. Death by radiation poisoning sounds horrendous.
6. Nuclear war only lasts a little more than an hour.
7. Surviving nuclear war is probably worse than not surviving it.
8. The only winners are the North Korean leaders who will emerge from their caves in 500 years more inbred than Eastern Kentucky, and will repopulate the earth… which also sounds worse that dying in or surviving a nuclear war.

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Was Cornwall an Army Supply Officer?

Revisado: 06-28-24

Cornwall in this book, and the next book, perfectly captures the nuances and I-hate-my-life-ness of being a supply officer in the Army. Whatever you do is never good enough, it’s always your fault, and why didn’t you create a miracle to get me what I need?

Also, the choice of an English reader was very grating at first. This is the American South in 1861, why does the narrator have to be English? He seems to struggle between switching from an English accent to some sort of attempted Southern accent… and what you get instead is a voice that sounds like a 1930s radio announcer. He tries, and through his efforts he saves the performance, but if they had picked a lazy English reader, I don’t know if I would have made it through the first quarter of the book.

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Good concepts, could be 4 hours shorter

Revisado: 11-04-23

Definitely helped me in dealing with/ creating a game plan for my first bullshit corporate job (grew up in a blue collar family where work had meaning and gave one a sense of purpose). But the book is about 4-6 hours too long. The author is an academic, and it shows in his work.

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Wow!! A must read!

Revisado: 10-26-23

This is a must read and should be read in all us high school history classes!!!

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Just couldn’t listen anymore

Revisado: 07-19-22

Ok, this guys whole military career consisted of working in teams of men who were hand selected after the most rigorous course in the US Military, had an unlimited budget, unparalleled logistical (you need an obscure tool? The us government will get it to you in 24 hours) and now he’s telling the remaining 99% of us how to manage teams.

If you want to learn about leadership in less than ideal conditions, find a book by an infantry commander in Vietnam. Someone who led draftees in an unpopular war.

Leadership is entirely different when you’re leading the unwilling and the poorly trained.

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A must read!

Revisado: 07-19-22

This was one of those rare books where you repeated the past 30-60 seconds over and over again, just so you could fully understand and appreciate whatever profound theory the author is explaining to you.

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Poor performance

Revisado: 07-19-22

What should have been a riveting tale of a ground attack fighter pilot in world war 2, was transformed into a dull reading.

The author once mentioned accidentally dropping phosphorus filled bombs on friendly troops. In the book, he acted like this was a minor miscalculation, when in reality he burned countless friendly Soldiers alive.

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A must read!

Revisado: 07-17-22

It’s like listening to an old warrior tell his stories and bear his soul to you.

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