Carol Domme

clear, precise narration

Revisado: 09-07-24

while a bit lacking in detail, a general overview, that's interesting, captivating. still, makes me look up more detailed books on the subject

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constant relation and reference to race inequality

Revisado: 06-02-24

glad I didn't waste a credit on this one. conflation of modern race relations to WW2 era ruined what turned out to be a misleading title. America's record on race issues is a black eye in our history, but most people in this country were not primarily concerned with race then, neither black nor white. To use the titles premise as yet another attack on race division, only prolongs that division. author should be ashamed

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rare topic of discussion

Revisado: 11-28-23

I would like a bit more personal accounts, but realize that's a tall order. still very enlightening

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one authors view

Revisado: 03-14-22

less a history than an interpretation. ok, not great. wish author had less emotion, more objectivity

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loved it! proves why the world has degenerated

Revisado: 02-15-22

like a blast from the past, when good people stepped forward to do great things. so different from 2020's. Gives the reader of this book why the greatest generation were not the degeneration of today. As alien to millennials as hieroglyphs

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a very enjoyable listen, overall

Revisado: 02-10-22

aside from narrator's incessant mispronunciations and the surprise of being informed that General Wavell's first name in the intro was Percival, actually Archibald, I believe the Percival part of the name was bastardized from Arthur Percival, the GOC in Malaya campaign, which Wavell had a hand in. Pretty minor gripes, really, but unexpected given the high standard of Mr. Yenne's earlier works. Overall, very enjoyable, light reading, but historically somewhat shallow. I'm just grateful Mr. Yenne avoided the more usual modern revisionism and unfair judgement more common these days. It really was a very different era, and I'm glad author reserved his personal feelings to report history only as it was recorded, not as many would like to change it to be. Then, as now, people are as flawed as humans tend to be, and then, were allowed to go on to great deeds without someone decrying their flaws, wanting false justice to be dealt postmortem.

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Revisionism run ampk

Revisado: 08-24-20

ridiculously revisionist. entertaining, in a Hollywood sort of fashion, it doesn't meet traditional historical excellence in truthfulness, being full of half-truths and selective facts. Still, it was entertaining to listen to, much in the way the movie" Pearl Harbor, with Ben Affleck, is entertaining. Just don't rely on it as history. Should have stuck with the dry facts of engineering, left the research to his forebears, as well as the political correctness.

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well searched, but impersonal, judgemental

Revisado: 07-27-20

disturbingly revisionist, story is nonetheless well researched. modern authors tend to not realize contemporary mores were not applicable

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inspirational words of self sacrifice, wasted

Revisado: 07-06-20

Brilliant last chapter, eloquent and accurate. My regret is that the rioting, anarchic youth of 2020 will not be disposed to read this book before tearing down another statue they are intrinsically incapable of understanding. It is the true tragedy of history.

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a classic, still an authoritative account

Revisado: 12-29-18

I first read this story back in 1970s. very dated now, but was enjoyable, anyhow

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