10 minutes of content hidden in a 12+ hour book

This is the book for you if you want to know:

* What the author likes for breakfast
* What type of computer and Internet service the author has
* When and why the author prefers to take public transportation
* What the author listens to while jogging
* How the author likes to exchange documents
* How the author likes to format e-mail messages

Are these people paid by the word? I want my time back!

22 persone l'hanno trovata utile

If you want to learn how the author wrote the book this is for you!

The author of this book takes entirely too much time telling you about the process of writing this book. I wanted to learn about the subject of the book. I have no interest in learning about the types of dogs his friends have and places the authors friends live in. The author repeats himself often in strays from the subject far too much for this to be an interesting book.

14 persone l'hanno trovata utile

written by historical amateur's

this book is utterly ridiculous. I think the best way to describe it is by putting it in the same category as those so-called "historians" whom claim that Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker. Even worse, the "evidence" the author uses to prove his points can easily be debunked by the average WW2 enthusiast I advise you not waste your time with this book.

14 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Thoroughly boring

Written and read like a bad fiction spy novel. Full of idle speculation. Remind me of the bad conspiracy theory shows on history channel.

6 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Written by Lieutenant Columbo?

This title may have some facts and insights unknown until its publication. Unfortunately, the author writes way too much about himself and his research. (There are multiple authors listed. For purposes of this review, the singular will be used.)

How many times must the author tell the reader while he was interviewing the old man that he said, "Just one more question"? I fully expected Columbo to jump out of the closet to say, "Just one more thing, sir."

The book is about half "Hidden Nazi" and about half the author's pursuit and feelings about what was learned.

This title could be saved. It needs a good editor, and some judicious pruning.

1) Remove the references to self. Besides being distracting and annoying, it is egotistical. Does the author believe he is the only person who is shocked upon hearing a retelling of an SS Officer shooting a toddler?

2) Edit what is left. Eliminate the repetition of uninformative jargon; "the wife looked, the wife moved, the wife seemed."

3) Organize the book in chronological order of the subject. If a scholarly presentation is desired, add footnotes to reference where and how a particular fact was obtained.

4) A Forward or Afterword may be included to explain how the author found his facts, but keep it out of the main story. If a movie star has brilliant white teeth in a movie, no one wants to know what brand of toothpaste she uses.

I hope this title gets updated.

4 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Why would America let evil personified walk away?

This book grips the listener at three levels. One, three friends solving a 70-year old historical mystery – in the buddy cop tradition. Two, solving the mystery itself. A mystery where the clues come not in mysterious bloodstains or conveniently dropped matchboxes, but from meticulous review of reams of paper that the government neglected to destroy, redact, or withhold. And three, their quarry. A hideously cruel sadistic man who is the administrative counterpart of Werner Van Braun.

As someone who has read World War II books since 1985, this book had me sitting in the car after I got home, ears flapping to find out what happened next.

The book is a series of unforgettable vignettes:
• Will the Nazi’s ill son see the author?
• A fatherly Holocaust survivor who can describe unspeakable horror matter of factly;
• A loaf of bread tossed into the snow to see if a starving man would go for it, and murdering him if he does;
• Comparing dry sounding memoranda from US Army intelligence that give the listener the chilling realization that they had their man and let him vanish – but why?
• An unexpected package from the FBI;
• What did the Nazi have that was so valuable? Why hide him even from British allies?
• Walking to the spot where the Nazi reportedly shot himself.

This book is the final rebuttal to those who think that there is little remaining to be learnt about World War II aside from crank theories. The prevailing version of history is correct, but it has barely begun to scratch the surface. Nazi Germany was an intricate machine. And this book shows that we’ve just started to grapple with its most complex parts.

Here’s to the next book in the same vein.

3 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Outstanding book — reads like a novel

This book is very well written, well read, and riveting and persuasive. Highly recommend it.

2 persone l'hanno trovata utile

Incredible US Intel collaboration with Nazis

Though focusing on Kemmler, this tells unbelievable, but true, story of how segments of the US bureaucracy of the time, subverted our own values and laws, to gain knowledge and expertise from Nazi war criminals.
The facts of what the Nazi killers are difficult to hear, hard to digest, and impossible to understand, even though already well-known to me.
But the facts alone don't make for 5-star reading. While well-done. the organization, composition, and telling of the history comes across as disorganized & less than the compelling and riveting read it could be. If the facts were novelized or written into a Hollywood movie script, it could, in fact, be among the most exciting of tales. As it stands. it reads more like a dry college history textbook. Still well worth getting through, however.

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

We didn't need the Nazis to build the A-bomb

Interesting but again...it never happened, that the Nazis were able to build the bomb. Many experts say the Nazis weren't that close. Van Braun isn't to blame except for being brilliant and ambitious. He didn't use slave labor here, and if our Govt didn't care then help me understand why I should. After all, we were pretty good at killing anyone who got in our way, how sadistic and cruel is that?

1 persona l'ha trovata utile

So much hate

The hate and lack of worldly experience of history of Valor of appreciation for brilliance is just suffocating. Do they really not understand the concept of Prisoners of War.

The reader should be ready Dick Tracey not anything with an attempt at historical research.