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Robotic AI Narration of Dull Anecdotes

Revisado: 01-12-25

Stories were not interesting and performance was robotic because it was read by AI robot. This production is merely a cynical cashing in on a story in the public domain.

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Satisfying reveal of life in Africa and what the fauna is actually like

Revisado: 12-05-24

Disliked gratuitous profanity and author’s ego. Liked politically incorrect declarations of what what various animals are actually like/how they behave.

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ARGUABLY HIS BEST

Revisado: 11-07-22

IF FOCUS ON THE THRILL OF SUCCESS AND THE AGONY OF FAILURE IS WHAT YOU PREFER, BEGIN ELLSBERG WITH "ON THE BOTTOM". IF YOU WOULD PREFER A BROADER PERPECTIVE ON WAR AND PEACE AND ON HUMANITY AT IT'S BEST AND WORSE, BEGIN WITH THIS BOOK.STILL PLENTY OF SALVAGE YORE.

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Godless Liberals Do History

Revisado: 05-01-20

This work was a pretty well written history of the subject matter until near the end when the biblical account of the history of Israel is dismissed as myth. Not a single word of the Bible has ever been demonstrated to be myth. I could just as easily declare the Holocaust as myth. That's not scholarship (regarding the biblical account of the history of Israel), that's wishful thinking on the part of secular Ann Arbor-based elitists..

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Bizarre, But Might Be Worth the Price

Revisado: 04-21-19

There isn't a lot of material for diving enthusiasts to read about their sport, so one has to take what one can get. This book is queer - it's a compilation of dive magazine articles, many of which aren't "stories" at all, but merely a recounting of dives, with no real point, no "story", as in, "We dived at such-and-such spot in the Red Sea, saw interesting sea life, and then surfaced", end of story. Mixed in there are SOME decent actual stories, particularly in latter third of book.

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Doesn't Get Much Better

Revisado: 04-11-19

Adventure, true heroism, lots of stuff about undersea work - what more could you want?

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Adventure Conflated With Hyperbole

Revisado: 04-11-19

This work is not bad, and I suppose it's a story that deserves to be told, but that doesn't mean this particular author did the subject matter justice.

This narrative is riddled with hyperbole intended to attract and maintain reader interest, but not always holding to the truth.

Some examples -

1.) Why should we care about the pirate ship that is the focus of this book? We should care if the pirate was a swashbuckler with a compelling history, and to certain extent he was, but not in the ways this author or the searches make him out to be. Rather than an English gentleman who threw over his conventional life for a life of daring-do, I think the evidence shows that the pirate was simply a man with a base heart.

2.) Rather than have "defeated" the British Navy I think the evidence shows he got his ass whipped.

In sum, we're supposed to be interested in pirates if they were what our imagination wants them to be, and to sell his book this author doesn't want to disappoint our expectations. So the pirate and the persons who seek out this particular pirate's history are wrapped in romance to sell this book. The reality is far more prosaic. This pirate was a murderous thug who eventually got his just desserts. I suppose the people that tracked down the remains of his ship deserve some praise for their efforts - the story of this pirate is interesting, but not gripping.

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What Fails, The Narration or the Story?

Revisado: 03-02-19

I've read Lord's "Incredible Victory" and "Night to Remember" and there are some important comparisons and contrasts with this book. What stands out for me, to a greater or lesser extent, with all three is the surprisingly glib way Lord addresses death and tragedy. In "Incredible Victory" one doesn't notice the glib treatment of death so much because it's in the context of heroic victory - death is less tragic when death is heroic. But death, treated glibly, becomes more offending when in the context of events like the Titanic and Dunkirk. This is particularly galling in this work, "Miracle at Dunkirk". Is it the tone of the narrator or the way the book was written? What one learns in this account of Dunkirk is that while it is true the bulk of an one army (the British) and a percentage of another (the French) was saved - and this is a terrific salivation - nevertheless many were lost in horrific ways (strafing, bombing, torpedoing, exposure to the elements, drowning while trapped in sinking ship, drowning while in sight of home, etc.). The tone-of-voice as these tragedies are related is buoyant, just as buoyant as when people are being rescued. It's bizarre.


Tone-of-voice aside I found the relating of the events of the evacuation at Dunkirk to be rather dull, and I struggled to keep my focus on the story as I listened. This is probably less Lord's fault than the simple truth that an evacuation is not a particularly exciting event - mostly turning tail - as opposed to the story of when heroes stand and fight. The decision to evacuate was wise, but wise does not necessarily make for thrilling reading.

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Outstanding in every respect

Revisado: 10-19-18

Good story, good narration, devoid of politically correct nonsense. The truth about communists. Highly recommended.

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Muddled Conclusions

Revisado: 07-22-18

This book is biography of Chris (Kit Carson) and a history of the American Southwest, especially New Mexico. However, it is the approach of the author to supply a mini-biography of every significant personage involved in this history, so be prepared for that, as it can try the patience. Overall the author is a good historian and credible biographer, however it is easy to poke holes in many of conclusions that he, the author, personally arrives at.

For example, it is the overall contention of this author that the Indians were victims and that their crimes can be attributed to a minority (young braves) among the tribes. However, the facts he relates contradict those conclusions. It becomes clear, as one reads this history, that to travel through or reside near Indian lands in the era covered was the equivalent of doing so in proximity to ISIS (Islamic State) in the Middle East in the last decade of this century. These Indians would swoop down, rob, torture, murder, rape and then abscond. Hampton Sides would somehow have us believe that this behavior was somehow excusable, and that the people who risked their lives to put an end to it (the U.S. Army), and the Mexican and Spanish Armies before them, were evil.

Read this book for the facts, dates, names it relates but use discernment in drawing your own conclusions, uninfluenced by politically correct conventions of thought.

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