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The Battle of the Falkland Islands
- 1914: The Royal Navy and War in the Sout Atlantic in the Early Days of the First World War
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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The Battle of the Falkland Islands
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Publisher's Summary
FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this WWI naval history by an author who actually took part in the battle(s) described. This plain, unvarnished account, so far as is known, is the first attempt that has been made to link with the description of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, fought on December 8th 1914, to the events leading up to that engagement. Each phase presented has been read and approved by officers who participated.
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- Norris
- 17-04-2014
The Battle of the Falkland Islands
Is there anything you would change about this book?
I bought this for our family to listen to - my wife's Grandfather was aboard HMS Glasgow during this campaign, so I had a great personal interest in the story.
This, obviously, is an original historic account with great technical detail and accuracy, however, to todays listener it comes across as very dry, regularly skips and jump around points and subjects making for a quite a tough listen. By todays standards its overly verbose and difficult to connect with. Even with our enthusiastic listening its pretty hard going.
I have nothing against the narrator, however, I don't think the narration works as well as it could - he's not helped by the dry text. The most distracting thing is the mispronunciation of non english names. South American place names are bad enough but the pronunciation particularly of the Geisenau and Leipzig vessel names are appalling. Given that these vessels are a couple of the main 'characters', and their names repeated often in some passages, more research should have been done beforehand.
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