How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home
Written and Narrated By: Jake Wood
Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
BRAVO!!!
The Mosquito Bowl
A Game of Life and Death in World War II
By: Buzz Bissinger / Narrated By: George Newbern
Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
Some decent writing about Okinawa, but… so very disjointed… and only 4 mins. of Mosquito Bowl…
Return to Saigon - A Memoir
Buster
The Military Dog Who Saved a Thousand Lives
By: RAF Police Flight Sergeant Will Barrow, Isabel George / Narrated By: James Langton
Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
Loved this, and what a tremendous partnership!
Beyond the Call
SOG Medic
Places and Names
On War, Revolution, and Returning
Written and Narrated By: Elliot Ackerman / Summary of Action By: Mark Deakins
Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
(Mostly) Engaging, but -not- STUNNING… until that last line
Agent Zigzag
A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
By: Ben MacIntyre / Narrated By: John Lee
Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
A smarmy, schmoozy, amoral… Hero?!? This is so entertaining as To DIE For!!!
After
The Battle Has Just Begun
By: R.J. Belle / Narrated By: Amy Rubinate, Alex Hyde-White, Betsy Baker, Eric Martin, RC Bray, Jeffrey Kafer, Gary Sinise, Scott Brick, P. J. Ochlan, Punch Audio
Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
Awesome; no politics, just heart and soul and healing in words and actions
The Things They Cannot Say
The Facemaker
A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
By: Lindsey Fitzharris / Narrated By: Daniel Gillies
Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
Ahhhhh… m’ sister read the Publisher’s Summary… something you should NOT do if you’re going to enjoy this VAStly AWEsome book!
Craig and Fred
Where War Ends
Healing Wounds
A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
By: Diane Carlson Evans / Contributor: Bob Welch / Foreword By: Joseph Galloway / Narrated By: Janet Metzger
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
So sobering; so very good
Seeking Quan Am
The Great Escape
By: Paul Brickhill / Narrated By: Robert Whitfield
Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
You KNOW how it ends, but it’s STILL so gosh darned mesmerizing!!!
What It Is Like to Go to War
By: Karl Marlantes / Narrated By: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
Intensely Philosophical, Intensely Intimate
Vietnam - Soldier Stories and Songs
By: Jim "Doc" Purtell / Narrated by: Andrew Baldwin
Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
A MUST for veterans, a MUST for the rest of us…
No Man’s Land
The Taliban Shuffle
Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
By: Kim Barker / Narrated By: Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
Looking for darkly comedic? Comedic darkness? Looking for good writing? Uhm…?