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  • By: John Launer
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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John Launer, a United States Army Combat Infantryman in the Vietnam War, details his horrific experiences during that time. Setting the record straight that soldiers were not drug addicts, murderers, and baby killers, Launer documents that American media bias led to the public misunderstanding of the war. The action within is violent, bloody, and never ending, leading many veterans to devastating physical and psychological trauma upon their return home to the USA.

This title uses virtual voice narration

Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
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Virtual Voice needs some work

One of the best tellings of what it’s like to be a combat infantrymen at war. The book is so good it overcame the poor quality AI rendition. Hopefully, the book will be presented using a qualified human narrator.

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Everyday life in country

This is the best book I have read about the Vietnam War. I felt like I was there. I wish I was. God bless all the troops!

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Great Story

The story was gripping and put you in the jungle with the Grunts. No sugar coating just raw fear and survival. The AI narration was an abomination just terrible. Clearly not narrated by a person. The narration went in and out and skipped some words. Use a real person next time.

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Great book but terrible narration

This is the best account of the Vietnam experience that I have read. It is particularly good because it traces the writer’s opinions and how they change as he goes through his tour. In particular the anti war movement and the criticism of the government is not common in the biographies and autobiographies I have read. However the AI narration was monocratic and devoid of emotion — mis- pronunciations - it would have 5 stars had it not been for the narration.

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Great soldier's story.

Great book BUT...the AI narrator is what you would expect. Cold. Emotionless, odd pronunciations, machine-like at times. Far prefer a live human being doing the reading.

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I loved the details that he experienced

I very much enjoyed this book and the perspective he gave as an infantry man.

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very good

lots of things that I never new, I had no idea all that those guys went through

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Narration

Not a big fan of virtual voice, Very impersonal and flat that lacks any emotion.

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Combat Infantry vs REMF’s

Highly underrated. Cogent, articulate, dialogue. Must read to appreciate at a fundamental level what just a tiny fraction of the ground combat experience was.

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