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Informative and revealing.

Reviewed: 02-10-20

The utter defeat of the Japanese at Midway always seemed too good to be true. With this book, we get to see how their defeat was more complex and interesting.

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Not a novel, but a 2 novella omnibus.

Reviewed: 08-06-18

This is a great book that holds up well in modern times despite being nearly seventy years old and the narrator is the ever solid, Scott Brick.

The performance of Scott Brick is good as is every narration of his to which I have had the pleasure of listening. He isn't as brilliant or as adaptable as some, but still entertaining and worth the price I paid.

Where as the first book in the original Foundation Trilogy was a omnibus of five short stories that Isaac Asimov published in the 1940s (much like I, Robot), this book is made from two novellas similarly published. Each is entertaining and instructive, world-building the Foundation universe. However, it still suffers from the same plight that all such compilations of shorter works that try to pass off as a novel in of itself suffer. There is a disconnect between the first and second stories, as the characters, heroes and villains, are completely different since the stories are separated by a century of time. That really didn't matter to me, as both were very good. What always put me off was that the second story in Foundation and Empire is directly linked with the first story from Second Foundation, and the theme of that novel in the trilogy, searching for the second foundation. I always thought it made more sense to publish those novellas together as a novel, so closely connected are they. In a way this situation reminds me of the Two Towers from Lord of the Rings. The fact that the novellas from Foundation and Empire were not originally intended as a combined book, rather as a separate stories in the same universe, loosely connected keeps Foundation and Empire from being as smooth as it would have been if Isaac Asimov wrote a purpose written novel like he would write later on with the Foundation Franchise. Nevertheless, within each novella is an great story excellently written and worth exploring.

There is no sexual content worth mentioning, and there is only a little foul language/profanity to be wary of. A very clean book all round.

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EPIC! EPIC! EPIC!

Reviewed: 04-14-18

What did you love best about Indestructible?

The incredible true story of husband and father moving heaven and earth to get his family back from the Japanese occupied Philippines.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Indestructible?

Pappy Gunn's quick thinking solution to guide the planes on the airstrip at night. He really was something!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

OOOOOOOOOOH YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!

Any additional comments?

Note that this is a biography, there will be grusome descriptions of war and a lot of profane language from P. I. "Pappy" Gunn. Nevertheless, in spite of those this book was AWESOME!

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