
Days of Infamy
Military Blunders of the 20th Century
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Narrado por:
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Robert Abia
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Michael Coffey
This compendium fleshes out the century's best known military mishaps. In a series of short chapters, Coffey shows how even relatively small misjudgments have become historical turning points, such as how a driver's poor knowledge of Sarajevo's streets in 1914 helped lead to World War I. He reminds us of some of the bigger blunders, including detailing how the Treaty of Versailles laid the groundwork for the Second World War. More recent events receive coverage, too. Here is the Bay of Pigs and Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Also underscored are the unexpected ways things go wrong, either from the design of a weapon, friendly fire, or complacency.
This book is the official companion volume to the riveting History Channel 26-part documentary series.
©1999 A&E Television Networks & Disney Enterprises, Inc. (P)2000 Books on Tape, Inc.Reseñas de la Crítica
"Like the best general history volumes, Coffey's book, in clean, muscular prose, expertly informs as it artfully entertains." (Publishers Weekly)
The biggest problem for me, however, was not the choice of incidents. I felt like this book was just not very interesting. The story telling was off. I found myself wanting to just get through this book and be done with it. That's extremely rare for me with a history book, especially one about 20th century wars.
The narrator doesn't help at all. He's not a total misfit, but he's dull and monotone.
The production also was lacking with this book. It's not the biggest deal in the world, but it's always distracting when the audio book is poorly edited. You can't help but lose faith in a book when there are lines repeated and words mispronounced.
I do have a couple positive things to say about the book, which is why I gave it 3 stars. Strangely, despite the brevity of coverage for each event, I learned quite a few new things from the sections covering subjects that I have read about extensively in the past. In addition, a number of the events covered were ones which I had no knowledge of previously.
Disappointing but informative
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Instead I got a rather brief collection of story's. Very interesting, and well narrated for that but its for the non history buff. (In truth it didn't claim to be any thing else!) In short, its great light listening, but just wasn't involved enough to engage me.
For all it?s shortcomings, a good provoking book
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Add to that the voice talent working without a pronunciation guide and some very labored prose (Must we use the word "blunder" constantly? I know it is in the title, but still.) and you end up with volume you are better off skipping.
Not For The History Buff
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That fails to record the Battle of France, together with "Sitzkrieg"
as great errors? That goes into detail about Hitler's declaration of war against the US as a major error (when it is clear that the US would have found a pretext (after Pearl Harbor to soon declare war on Germany) while missing the turning point of WW2, the invasion of Russia, underestimating the Russian will to resist and the Russian winter? These are all signs of poor understanding. Add to this numerous factual errors (eg Bismark was sunk in the Atlantic , not in
a fjord, and the Munich agreement was prior to the occupation of the Sudetenland) and you have (especially in the case of WW2) a poor result. Add also things that cannot be reasonably described as Military Blunders (eg the assassination of Franz Ferdinand) and an exagerrated breathless writing style (heavy use of phrases like
"little did they know they were sailing to their doom") and it spells literary disaster. A further point, names are mispronounced eg
the ship Graf Spee is pronounced Spay rather than rhyming with bee
and French city names are also mispronounced.
a bad letdown
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