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Final Impact
- Axis of Time, Book 3
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In the year 2021 a multinational fleet - experimenting with untested weapons technology - pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble to adapt to new, high-tech killing tools and 21st-century ways of war.
For "uptimers" like Britain's Prince Harry and the men and women who serve aboard the supercarrier USS Hillary Clinton, war is a constant struggle with their own downtime allies, who are mired in ignorance and bigotry.
As the Allies counter the Nazi assault and set off for the coast of France, Japan begins to buckle; soon every battle will be played out in a lethal dance of might and intelligence, unholy alliances and desperate gambles, and each clash will be fought with the ultimate weapon: knowledge from the future.
Thanks to the historical records, all sides know that two superpowers will emerge, while the losers will be pounded into submission. But time has shifted on its axis, so none know who will survive or how peace will take hold in a world turned upside down. These are the questions that John Birmingham brilliantly answers in his critically acclaimed adventure of war and imagination.
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- Daniel Peacock
- 19-04-2021
Great series - shame about the poor accents
Great detail and plot changes, just sometimes hard to get over the poor accents. Story is amazing - the whole series.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-10-2023
Excellent series
Yes as an Australian the Aussie accent was a big let down but I thought highly of his other accents and was pleasantly surprised by his female voices pitch and tone.
Who would have thought that a book written over a decade ago would foresee Australia with nuclear subs, the Woomera class! Lol
Well done on the whole.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-01-2024
8.5 out of 10 for performance.
I appreciate the narrator had a lot of ground to cover and Australian accents are notoriously tricky for non natives. But given the origins of the author you would think they could have, at least, checked on acceptable renderings of the names of the harbour side Sydney suburbs.
Bondi...no.
Vauclees...no.
And I can't even bring myself to repeat his butchery of Woolloomooloo.
Enough for the brickbats, I guess a bouquet is in order for his effort at Curtin, he sounded as though he could be a 1940's Australian politician.
That all said, I have enjoyed the series, and there is the added interest in seeing how quickly the modern day content has aged.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-07-2020
excellent scifi series
excellent series with great characters, pacing, and plot. thoroughly enjoy the series and recommend to anyone. as well as the authors other work.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-10-2022
Loved it
Great series. Absolutely loved it. Narrator did a fantastic job with the huge range of voices (and accents required). His Australian pronunciation was a bit off, but hey, he seemed to nail everything else and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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- Mr Daniel Parnell
- 19-09-2021
Get an Australian to read the Aussie accents for G
Mate, love your books but hearing a clueless Yank call Bondi - Bondee and utterly butchering an Australian Woman's accent is disgraceful 😳
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- Anonymous User
- 09-12-2020
loved it
great story line , read the books many years ago , made it easy following
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- Anonymous User
- 28-11-2022
Time Travel On A Different Scale
Book 3 of 3 in this most enthralling time travel series!! Don't you just love a story when the totally unexpected happens and you hear yourself loudly exclaim so....😁
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- Ron Garvey
- 09-11-2022
John Birmingham’s masterpiece
This trilogy is one of the best series of books that I have read. I have read the paper copies about 3 times and now listened to the Audible
Just superb.
Birmingham is one of the
Finest authors around.
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- Leonie
- 27-02-2023
Brilliant series, but badly let down by narration
I've just finished the 3 books in this series, and they were all amazingly good. John Birmingham really is a master.
However, while I'm usually a fan of Jay Snyder, he really shouldn't have been chosen to do the narration for this series.
His attempts at Australian accents were cringeworthy (has he EVER actually listened to an Australian?).
Birmingham is an Australian, some of his most important characters are Australian and his books are very popular with Aussies, so Jay's mangling of the accent ruined parts of the listening experience, not only for me, but I'm sure for many others. Makes me wonder if other non-Aussie and non-American listeners had a similar problem.
Jay also had heaps of pronunciation 'misses', particularly of place names (e.g. Bondy instead of BondEYE for Bondi for goodness' sake!), but also of some other quite common words e.g. he had quarry rhyming with Harry. I started making a list of the most obvious mistakes, but gave up when the list was looked like stretching to a second page.
All in all though, very well worth the read (listen).
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