David J. Skulstad

• Morning Star, Midnight Sun

• The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942
• By: Jeffrey R. Cox
• Narrated by: Joe Barrett
• Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
• Unabridged

• Overall

  4.5 out of 5 stars 111
• Performance

  4.5 out of 5 stars 103
• Story

  4.5 out of 5 stars 100

Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Soloman Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal. Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the US Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Both sides told

• By Davidsol Cometa on 05-09-18

• A Soldier of the Great War

• By: Mark Helprin
• Narrated by: David Colacci
• Length: 31 hrs and 1 min
• Unabridged

• Overall

  4.5 out of 5 stars 537
• Performance

  4.5 out of 5 stars 377
• Story

  4.5 out of 5 stars 377

On his last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuliani shares his past with an illiterate young factory worker, spinning a remarkable tale of heart-stopping escapes, of loves unrequited and won, of madmen, dwarfs, and mafiosi. But overshadowing all is his most miraculous and terrible adventure, the Great War: a surreal parade of horrors that devastated and defined Alessandro, yet enabled him to experience fully the magic and beauty of the absurd human comedy called life.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• I love this guy

• By Annette on 05-07-08