
Leningrad
The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
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Peter Drew
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By:
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Anna Reid
On September 8, 1941, 11 weeks after Hitler's brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The German siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation. Stripping away decades of Soviet propaganda, and drawing on newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid chronicles the Nazis' deliberate decision to starve Leningrad into surrender, the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the horrors experienced by soldiers on the front lines, and, above all, the ordeal of life in the blockaded city.
Leningrad tackles a raft of unanswered questions: Was the size of the death toll as much the fault of Stalin as of Hitler? Why didn't the Germans capture the city? Why didn't it collapse into anarchy? What decided who lived and who died? Impressive in its originality and literary style, Leningrad gives voice to the dead and throws new light on one of the twentieth century's greatest calamities.
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Horrible narration
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loved it.
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Tremendous production of gripping history
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What did you love best about Leningrad?
The eye-witness accounts.What did you like best about this story?
The whole idea. Not much is known about the siege in the West.Would you listen to another book narrated by Peter Drew?
I might.If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
The Battle between Darkness and Light.Any additional comments?
None.A truth at last revealed.
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Peter Drew's narration of Anna Reid's Leningrad is an embarrassment. The blurb indicates it was done at Audible studios and even had a producer, but I have many doubts about that. Any producer actually listening would have demanded and corrected the hundreds of mistakes in the narration. Hundreds. Here's a partial list:
RAY SHUN for ration
STALEEN for Stalin
LENEEEN for Lenin
HERMI TAJJJ for Hermitage (yes, it was separated)
SCHLIESSELBUR... something or other for Schulsselberg
CONSERVATOIR for Conservator or maybe it was supposed to Conservatory, I couldn't tell.
LONG A RIE for lingerie (I'm serious)
This is just not acceptable. This man is supposedly a pro voice actor who does a lot of commercials and corporate voice over gigs but non fiction historical reading of a text reveals him to be nearly illiterate in a professional sense. In case Audible's leadership doesn't get it, let me spell it out for you; your only product is a voice. That's all you sell, voices in tiny earbuds or in car speakers, nothing else. It's imperative that those voices be able to read and pronounce the words they are reading.... get this... CORRECTLY.
Peter Drew's rendition of this text is just an embarrassment and I can't believe that the author would have approved it if she had any say so in the contract. It's so bad Audible needs to issue an apology by email to everyone who's ever bought this book and commission a new reading.
Maybe you ought to have a lackey read all the comments about the book and realize 90 percent of them are screaming about the narrator. I'd be tempted to say this is the worst I've ever encountered but I just suffered through an AI voiced narration of Stalingrad by Chuikov and if there's any more of an insult than using AI, it's using a twenty something cigarette smoking barfly woman's scratchy voice to record the memoir of a SOVIET general officer who commanded at the battle of STALINGRAD. I didn't look it up yet to see if that's an Audible studio production or not so I can't automatically hang that on Audible, but it's a 50/50 shot.
Get your act together, Audible. You're fumbling the ball badly.
C. Telcontar
The Worst Exscuse for a Narrator Ever
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Great story, poor narration.
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Heart wrenching
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Not in depth
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Good book, Horrible Performance
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great book, bad narration
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