Tod J Weitzel
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Combat-Ready Kitchen
- How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat
- By: Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
- Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 42
You probably don't realize that your supermarket is filled with foods that have a military origin: canned goods, packaged deli meats, TV dinners, cling wrap, energy bars…the list is almost endless. In fact, there's a watered-down combat ration lurking in practically every bag, box, can, bottle, jar, and carton Americans buy. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo shows how the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate plans, funds, and spreads the food science that enables it to produce cheap, imperishable rations.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Agonizing.
- By Amazon Customer on 06-11-19
- Combat-Ready Kitchen
- How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat
- By: Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
- Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
Came for the history, left from the clickbait writing.
Reviewed: 04-23-18
What could have been an interesting history was framed like a clickbait blog entry. "YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU'RE FEEDING YOUR CHILDREN!"
The attempt by the author (not helped by a performance that drips with sarcasm and holier-than-thou attitude) to scare the reader gets in the way of the facts and history. I had to stop when I reached the chapter on bread - the author attempts to draw a link between Celiac Disease and shelf stable bread without any evidence save a timeline. Similar to the false "vaccines cause autism" argument, the diagnostic criteria got better at the same time as an unrelated development, equalling correlation, not causation.
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The Great Escape
- By: Paul Brickhill
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,497
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,117
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,122
It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men for every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and crude homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German clothes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and exciting!!
- By 6catz on 10-28-13
- The Great Escape
- By: Paul Brickhill
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
One of the most incredible stories of all time
Reviewed: 09-29-11
If no one had ever listened to an audiobook before, this would be the first one I would recommend.
The story is equal parts funny, suspenseful, tragic, and heroic. There is not one dull moment.
Robert Whitfield plays the wearied storyteller to perfection. You can hear in his performance the voice of a man who lived through this ordeal, but never lost his hope or his trust in his fellow countrymen and allies.
The incredible and famous movie adaptation has buried its all-star cast in the western world's psyche. Everyone has images of Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, and all the rest in their heads. This gives the amateur audiobook listener a shortcut to visualizing the major characters.
Finally, it's all true.
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