Making sense of history in the Pacific

Quite approachable for a listener - new to audio history. I have not seen the TV saga of this but the written work was very useful. The reader was fine -easy to listen to and my only real criticism is that occasionally you could feel the word processor at work - the cut and paste - that does not mesh with the rest of the narrative. But it was worth listening to. So - yes - we could use more work in this genre. Please - could we find out what life was like for the Japanese or the Germans, the Baltic States, the Russians, Norwegians etc. during the same period?

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Good but not brilliant.

Good story. Annoyed increasingly by narrator pronunciation: for-waard etc. put me off somewhat an interesting idea to follow individual people through the war. It does mean there are gaps and didn't like the way the Japanese - Japs - were always described. But that is what you get following the time.

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Factual Correct

These authors tend to sanitise the racist attitudes of the Americans toward the Japanese (replacing ethnic slurs with proper designations) whilst casually describing obvious War Crimes as if such behaviour is natural and correct. A good corrective to this one-sided narrative is John Dower's book 'War Without Mercy' which carefully records the US War Crimes that were falsely justified at the time in exactly the manner used by these two contemporary authors. The killing of wounded is against the law - but was committed by the Americans because the Japanese were viewed as 'subhuman'. It is disturbing that this book follows that racist narrative without question.

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The greatest generation

The brutality of the Pacific war has almost now equal... every single one of the vets is a hero ! The world needs more John Basilones and less Trumps

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flat narration

I hoped this would be a great follow up to the mini series and it kind of is in terms of information but unfortunately the narrator just does not do a very good job at making the story. it seems like nothing more than a list of words to be read out in the same flat tone no matter what is being said. It's a shame because it is a story and could be told as one, but this has all the excitement of listening to an autoread pdf document, no change in tone etc. kind of just a list of information, not at all what I'd hoped for.

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enjoyable

great listen to some very scary times, some very brave people out there and thank you

Good, but I had technical issues

Listened at 1.3 X, chapter 12 mobile download crashes in places, despite re-downloading, PC okay

The Pacific - very interesting ...

The pacific - very interesting especially from the 4 different soldiers accounts of their stories
Narration was good

really good quality. kept me riveted

Although not as good as band of brothers it comes an easy second best where ww2 stories are concerned

Good war book

This is very intresting book give you a new insight into the pacific war and the men who frought it and what they went though well wourth reading.

The only down side is that sometimes they swich between people and it can take you a second wo notes that this has happened but other than that great book