Dave Miller

Much more than I actually wanted.

Revisado: 08-05-22

Very good, and extremely detailed especially the last 1/3. I personally could have stopped at the half way point because that covers the time I'm most interested in.

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Narration didn't fit

Revisado: 11-04-21

The material was good, but the narration did not fit for me. a
And I'm no history scholar, but I've listened to many history audio books and the pronunciation in this audio book was very different from anything I've ever heard. like the historian Bede pronounced 'bae-day' really? wow

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The title says it all.

Revisado: 12-23-18

Don't get caught up in the little shit that doesn't matter. Look at the big picture of what Trump has done and what he is trying to do.

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"It's All left to the imagination."

Revisado: 09-22-17

I really enjoyed the audiobook for the most part. It was very interesting to hear about what life was like for various types of people in the middle ages rather then endless names of kings and battles and dates. The big problem I had with this audiobook was that the later chapters talked a lot about art and architecture. It would have been very helpful to have have a pdf guidebook with PICTURES and illustrations. I even purchased the kindle ebook in hopes of getting pictures, diagrams and maps, but it had NONE! An ebook that discuss art and architecture without a single picture. Boo

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The Greatest at everything everywhere.

Revisado: 09-19-17

Mr. Peter Berresford Ellis is most certainly one the greatest Celtic apologists. The Celts are the be all end all of civilization in Mr. Ellis' mind I do believe. Interesting information but very favorable in all things Celtic. I admire the Celts as much as anyone, and my DNA has roots in Britain and Western Europe, but Mr. Ellis certainly has his Celtic bias.

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One of the better war "memoirs"?

Revisado: 09-08-17

The reason I give it (2) four stars ratings and not fives, is that I have read that Sajer's actual experiences to the war in the eastern front are somewhat ambiguous. Sajer himself states that the book is based on recollections but not an attempt at a historically accurate book. So it's probably more of a war novel in the vein of "All Quite on the Easter Front" rather than an accurate memoir. That aside, I found it well written and compelling.

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Absorbing

Revisado: 03-15-17

Very engrossing, it's just incredible what this one soldier experienced. Very well written and fast moving. It's easy to understand the difficulty this person had returning home and trying to instantly begin a "normal" life.

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Nothing New for Me

Revisado: 02-07-17

This was a well written, well performed and a good story, but there just wasn't anything really new to me. I guess having lived through that time and being aware of all of the happenings described in the book, it just felt worn.

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Gained lots of information

Revisado: 11-07-16

Very detailed, very well narrated but also complex. It would have required an interactive map to be able to keep track of locations of the action. The small maps in the ebook helped but still not enough.

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26-1/2 hours of a great overview

Revisado: 03-16-16

It's hard to imagine that an audiobook 26-1/2 hours long could seem to only touch on the 'what leader did what to whom and when' without going into any of the details of the people or their way of life or who they were. This book covers a vast amount of history in those 26-1/2 hours. The best you can hope for is to find points of interest that you can later read further to find more indepth information. I was particularly lost in the vast amount of names and places in Chinese history with no context or background. Overall, very informative on a grand overview basis. Also, in the beginning there was a mixture of myth along with archaeologically backed history that it was difficult to distinguish when the writer was relaying a myth or some real history, which I found confusing at times.

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