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De: John Launer

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

John Launer, a United States Army Combat Infantryman in the Vietnam War, details his horrific experiences during that time. Setting the record straight that soldiers were not drug addicts, murderers, and baby killers, Launer documents that American media bias led to the public misunderstanding of the war. The action within is violent, bloody, and never ending, leading many veterans to devastating physical and psychological trauma upon their return home to the USA.

Everyday life in country

This is the best book I have read about the Vietnam War. I felt like I was there. I wish I was. God bless all the troops!

Remember the groundhog days

Remembering all the mundane experiences day after day and nights. Do not like AI narrative, to many cuts making story breaks.

Exposing a lot of truth.

This book is the most accurate I’ve listened to regarding the Vietnam War. This is what it was like as a grunt in Vietnam. I served in 1/506 Infantry, 101 st. Abn. Div. in the mountain jungles and lowlands of I Corp Vietnam.

Virtual Voice needs some work

One of the best tellings of what it’s like to be a combat infantrymen at war. The book is so good it overcame the poor quality AI rendition. Hopefully, the book will be presented using a qualified human narrator.

Great Story

The story was gripping and put you in the jungle with the Grunts. No sugar coating just raw fear and survival. The AI narration was an abomination just terrible. Clearly not narrated by a person. The narration went in and out and skipped some words. Use a real person next time.

Respect

So much respect for the comeback veterans. Brooke does a great job painting the picture of the range of emotions and experiences of those warriors on the front line of Vietnam. Would love better narration, AI has come a long way but still isn’t a human.

Great book but terrible narration

This is the best account of the Vietnam experience that I have read. It is particularly good because it traces the writer’s opinions and how they change as he goes through his tour. In particular the anti war movement and the criticism of the government is not common in the biographies and autobiographies I have read. However the AI narration was monocratic and devoid of emotion — mis- pronunciations - it would have 5 stars had it not been for the narration.

Great soldier's story.

Great book BUT...the AI narrator is what you would expect. Cold. Emotionless, odd pronunciations, machine-like at times. Far prefer a live human being doing the reading.

I loved the details that he experienced

I very much enjoyed this book and the perspective he gave as an infantry man.

very good

lots of things that I never new, I had no idea all that those guys went through