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A Thousand Shall Fall
- The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two
- Narrated by: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary
During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high.
German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were almost nil.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-02-03
Excellently written and read
I have listened to over twenty military themed Audible books and by far this has been the best both in writing style and how read. It was a pleasure to listen to and the first person accounts were well detailed and even educational. This audio book is highly recommended.
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- Tristan
- 2018-01-18
Great memoir, disappointing narrator
This memoir ambles along with enough detail to immerse you, yet not so much that the pace suffers. It is more a series of chronologically arranges anecdotes than a cohesive narrative per se. The narrator, however, lets down the story and writing with his consistently irritating tone, embarrassing imitations of British and American accents, and his annoying whisper-shouting. I feel that if there is shouting in the narrative, there should be shouting in the performance.
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