Bloody Kharkov I: Bloodied Wehrmacht, Volume 4

By: Andrew McGregor

Narrated by: Skyler Morgan

Fourth book in the WWII series covering the first section of the German advance on Kharkov in 1943.

As the tide of war in Russia begins to turn, Leutnant Hausser returns with his depleted and demoralised squad…in the bitter snow, cold and ice that is becoming their home. The battle for survival continues…to Kharkov.

©Infinite Andrew McGregor (P)2017 Andrew McGregor

Wall to Wall Action

I will be reading all of the Author's World War Two stories. He is a gifted writer. In this series he has created a chaotic environment for the soldiers as they feel each other out while learning the art of survival in combat. Read along as the characters grow and become compassionate for each other while remaining violent and brutal when necessity dictates.
The Author has been able to keep my attention throughout the book. A feat not easily obtained

Couldn’t Even Finish It

I wanted this to be good. A lot.

It wasn’t.

The material lacks sufficient depth in everything from setting, to story, to characters. I can best describe the story as something a high schooler would narrate as an RPG game. It flits from one scene to another, uses the same terms and lines repeatedly, doesn’t fill in very much detail, and has unlikely situation after unlikely situation. This feels like it was written by a “fan of WW2” rather than anyone with a deep historical knowledge of the period.

To make matters worse, the narration is awful. He comes off as a twenty something narrating a story for local library hour. No depth of emotion, no variation in voice, rhythm, timbre, anything.

You may not agree with my opinion but I’d strongly suggest listening to the sample first because that’s what the whole thing sounds like.

Painful listen, soon to be deleted from my library. That’s one credit I’ll never get back.