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Ripcord
- Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970
- By: Keith W. Nolan
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Story5 out of 5 stars 128
On April 10, 1970, Hill 927 was occupied by troopers of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division. By July, the activities of the artillery and infantry of Ripcord had caught the attention of the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) and a long and deadly siege ensued. Ripcord was the Screaming Eagles's last chance to do significant damage to the NVA in the A Shau Valley before the division was withdrawn from Vietnam and returned to the US.
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5 out of 5 stars
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0UTSTANDING
- By BRUCE R. on 04-26-22
- Ripcord
- Screaming Eagles Under Siege, Vietnam 1970
- By: Keith W. Nolan
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
Great book ok narrator
Reviewed: 10-18-21
I love books by Keith Nolan. Ripcord is one of his best. The narrator did a great job until Part 7. For some reason he became very dramatic to the point it was hard to listen to. It's still worth the purchase though. Nolan's writing outweighs the performance of the narrator.
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Vietnam
- An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Length: 33 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,706
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,500
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,491
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the US in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A more nuanced view than Ken Burns' companion book
- By Vu on 10-21-18
- Vietnam
- An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
Misearable
Reviewed: 03-19-20
The narrator's tone is like an over dramatic intelectual complaining for hours on end. I couldn't take it anymore and stopped listening.
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