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1968 - Into the Abyss
- The Elite Tunnel Rats
- Gesprochen von: Riley St. James
- Spieldauer: 6 Std. und 32 Min.
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What if after decades there was still one more untold incredible Viet Nam war saga peppered with tightly-written notes from then young, not yet 20, and highly decorated leader of a small group of underground and Special Force combatants who searched and destroyed over 900 tunnels?
What if this saga was more compelling than typical battlefield heroics by including experiences of this same elite group of fighters, led by multiple-medal awarded Staff Sergeant Thomas Wergen, who linked up with Special Forces for covert combat missions into areas across the South Vietnamese border such as Cambodia and Laos - where according to the US power’s political spin “they weren’t”?
What if along with their bloodstained tales this saga entailed accurate and concise historic tidbits, including anecdotes of the US protests across America, during the bloodiest and heaviest fighting period in the war when America had committed over 500,000 troops - the infamous TET counteroffensive phase of 1968?
What if this saga included an award-winning foreword, which depicts a remarkable and factual historical account retrieved directly from the logs of the mighty USS Constitution? Titled warfare on a skewer, this is a short account of how Captain “Mad Jack” Percival had carried out armed aggression against Danang, Vietnam (Turon, China) in May 1845. And more ironic the fact that Captain Percival’s war party - including Marines - stormed the same shores that the initial combat-designated Marines did in 1965, ordered by then President Lyndon Johnson.
Then you would have, 1968 - Into the Abyss, a book-length war account of - Bronze Star Medal and Combat Infantryman’s Badge decorated - Army Staff Sergeant Thomas E. Wergen.
Young and well-educated, Wergen found himself leading a selected squad of soldiers who meandered, crawled, and sought after in the dank darkness where even the most courageous dared not - the dreaded and treacherous jungle tunnels built by the North Vietnamese military. Because they were deadly effective and highly revered, they would also find themselves serving on secretive special force combat missions in the enemy-peppered hostile territory across the border, where they weren’t supposed to be.
So turn the lights up bright and follow along in these dense jungle war tales - just try not to get lost, or captured - by the enemy, that is.
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- 27.12.2020
The worst recording I have ever heard
Authors make lousy readers. I heard that at a book launch many years ago. The author answered the questions but when it came to reading an extract of her new book, the interviewer did it. And did it very well. With few exceptions that has proven accurate with audible. But I was very interested in accounts of tunnel rats in Vietnam and there are not many books about it.
This is the worst reading I have ever come across. At first I thought it was recorded in a car on a motorway with the noise of traffic in the background. But then I realized it was done with a voice activated device and probably a built-in microphone that records its own mechanical noise, Between half sentences there is silence. Then the background noise kicks in again together with the next half sentence. I could not believe what I was hearing. How did that amateurish, sloppy job make it into the audible selection?
I give only one star to the story because the recording makes it impossible for me to even listen.
I will give back that nerve-racking nonsense and rather get it on Kindle, where it is really cheap, by the way.
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