Some books need to finish

Do you ever get the feeling that the end of a book just creeps up and you know... with a couple of hours to go, you just know you've bought into a series book which is going to leave you hanging with that empty feeling inside, knowing that you probably won't get the next installment in a couple of years time.

Was the 21 hours wasted?... No. It's not a bad book: it tells a story and is well thought through but it's the literary version of Kill Bill Volume 1. It just stops.

It is one of the few books where the accents used by the narrator made me burst out laughing whilst walking the dogs. The English accent was identical to that used by Ross in Friends when he was lecturing the students... "Cor blimey me ol' mucker"

Sorry, but not for me - but it won't stop me hunting around for another one by the authors which is a story in it's own right.

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Excellent story—credible details

An excellent story with good credibility in detail, if not overly realistic.
The start was slow but was required to set foundation. The voice over accents were sometimes difficult to listen to. Disappointed to find no book 2 on file because I would have continued the series.

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Must Listen, Brilliant

This is a very very good book. Red Storm Rising by the late Tom Clancy is my favourite book and all books for me in this genre are for me measured against this. Most fall well short, this does not. As this is not the complete story, I can only hope the wait for the next book is not too long. There is a great level of detail here, I wish I had found the book earlier. It's a long one but captivating in its scope. I keenly await what comes next. Brilliant so far

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3 people found this helpful

a new star

Just excellent , on a par with Clancy's Red Storm Rising.
Action packed which keeps you hooked.
Disappointed that the second book isn't available yet.
The Narration on the audio book was really annoying at times, poor accents grates on me.

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Nato planners must have had a day off

Not a bad book BUT the problem with a lot of these types of books (James Rosone being another) is that even with the element of surprise, Nato always seem ill prepared with the same mistakes being made over and over. Several time I have had to stop listening or reading (both Audible and Kindle) as pretty much every Soviet attack works and every Nato attack fails due to poor understanding of battle tactics.
It feels like they always over estimate Soviet abilities and under estimate NATOs response and ability to have wargamed the potential scenarios before any conflift

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average story...terrible narration

struggled through the story but really not worth the effort. not the realistic story it is meant to be

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Sounds like a compendium of comedy accents

Story itself seems good, only managed the first 8 chapters though. Awful narration. Listen to a sample before purchasing, I know I wish I had.

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Was NATO really this useless?

Gave up listening to this as I became so fed up of NATO losing so easily again and again, thought narrator was good though he needs to work on his Russian, Norwegian and British accents.

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Unrealistic premise, not good narration

The sheer number of inaccuracies and faulty suppositions made about all aspects of the setting of this story detract from what could be a great novel! I suspect that the author's were trying to give the Soviet side as many passes as possible to avoid a one sided devastation. It makes for some incredulity inspiring moments. There seems to be some very large segments of filler that really slow the pace of this book and make it a turgid experience. Nowhere even close to being even in the same league as the books it tries to emulate. I think that the idea was to take what would have been one book into a novella of several parts.

The narration was plodding and the mispronouncing of certain words ('quay' is pronounced 'key' by the way, quite important for a book that is based on air-naval combat) really makes it grating. The attempts at accents and different voices in the majority of cases does not come off.

Overall I would hope that if and when a follow up book is published it would really be more balanced than this, as it is I cannot recommend this book as a stand-alone, and definitely cannot recommend this audiobook since the narration does no justice to those parts that are actually good.

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Just read the story!

Narrating an audio book is not an opportunity to demonstrate your (limited) voice acting skills. An unbearable listen due to the ham Russian accents. Can’t get past chapter one. I’ll buy the book.

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