Tipping Point

The Fifth Tunnel

De: John O'Brien

Narrado por: Mark Gagliardi

Artillery duels between the allied forces in South Korea and the seven thousand guns of North Korea ranged across the DMZ. With much of the North Korean aircraft destroyed during the preemptive attacks, South Korean and American attack fighters sortied from bases to strike at the leading North Korean columns. Skirmishes broke out between forward screening units. Nerves were on edge as the major ground units of the north and south were about to collide head-on. Will the southern defenses hold? Or will the masses of the north force their way through?

An anxious world looks on at North Korea’s use of chemical weapons. How will the United States respond? Will the use of weapons of mass destruction lead to a series of escalation events?

©2023 John O'Brien (P)2023 John O'Brien

Good book for those with a military mind

If you are a military person, you will enjoy this book series. Very technical and very detailed. Being a vet and somewhat of a military historian, I thoroughly enjoyed the books. There were several mispronunciations, but that would not be an issue to anyone that is not very knowledgeable

This is a good series

First as a former sapper I love the use of sappers in the book. A combat engineer’s importance to shaping the battlefield can’t be overstated. However as a former sapper that completed two tours in Korea I find some of the author’s suppositions to be unbelievable. A war on the Korean Peninsula will include the widespread use of weapons of mass destruction both chemical and nuclear and possibly biological by the north and retaliatory strikes by the US and South Korea. There just isn’t any way around that. The leadership of the north is unstable and knows their military equipment is old, unreliable, except for maybe their rocket forces. Their tanks are probably useless against the original M1 Abram’s. I am also a veteran of the first gulf war and saw first hand what happens to T-72s and T-64s that go up against a US Armored Cavalry Regiment, for us it’s like shooting ducks in a small pond for them; they may as well be driving a coffin. They have to know their armor is useless. They would be forced to fight dirty early in any war if they wanted any chance to win. Other than my belief that the author totally missed out on the WMD part I think this series will give anyone something to think about and is worth the time reading or listening to it.

Storyline reflects all the bull our military ...

I know our military has to jump thru hoops , but is our situation so dire? I'm discouraged and I'm just reading . Please give us a break in the next book.

gap filler

much of this is redundant. this could be a 2 hour listen included in another book.

Another good one

Great continuation on this series. Can’t wait to hear what happens next. Hopefully the good guys start winning a little more.

Similar to Madden Super Bowl simulations.

If the book was written in North Korea or China, it would be more patriotic to their side. This domestic(?) book was split down the middle and almost celebrates North Korean victories. Books are an escape from reality and not much to hear about a 50/50 battle unless the messages for this country to wake up. If that is a desired message, would prefer not to do it a $17 per book times, however many books. This could be accomplished with one book over 10 hrs.

Fast paced book

Just another teaser in the series that strings the reader along with so many seemingly irrelevant side stories to the main plot.

No real story

A good description of battlefield activities but there are no main characters and no plot. It is almost like a well-narrated RTS game.