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Paul M. Gareau

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Sujet trop vaste pour un seul historien

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Évalué le: 2025-02-21

Si l'œuvre est remarquable dans son ensemble, elle laisse entrevoir beaucoup de failles lorsqu'on l'examine attentivement. L’analyse de la politique de Staline est incomplète et pas toujours objective, particulièrement en ce qui concerne ses objectifs révisionnistes en Europe et sa politique d’agression. L’impact du “Prêt-Bail” reprend la version de la propagande russe qui cherche à le minimiser, en occultant son rôle de soutien et de développement de l’économie soviétique et des équipements militaires en dehors des chars, avions et canons. Plusieurs ont critiqué les lacunes de l’analyse militaire de l’auteur. Tout en comprenant le désir de l’historien de vouloir détruire certains mythes qui ont toujours cours, la méthode est parfois déficiente. Ainsi Rommel n’était pas un génie militaire : d’accord, mais quels sont les critères objectifs qui définissent un génie militaire? Le manque de connaissance de l’auteur pour d’autres régions du monde entraine un manque de profondeur (et des erreurs). Ainsi, son analyse de la résistance du Québec à la conscription relève presque des préjugés que l’on retrouve dans une certaine historiographie canadienne-anglaise. Et il a complètement échappé à l’auteur que la réaction des Québécois est conforme à celle des habitants de toutes les Amériques, dont aucun pays n’est rentré en guerre avant 1941. Bref, malgré tous les mérites de l’auteur et l’immense travail qu’il a accompli, il reste qu’un ouvrage aussi ambitieux sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale aurait grandement bénéficié d’être entrepris par un collectif d’historiens de diverses spécialités et de diverses nationalités.

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Really not worth a read or a listening

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Évalué le: 2024-12-10

I have difficulty understanding how this book found a publisher. The story is mostly about the daughter of Aliens' Vasquez and her twin brother: the Aliens encounters are few and far between, except in the last part of the book. That would not have matter if the character building had not been so weak (almost two dimensional) and if their personal story had been more interesting (and better written). Dialogues are full of clichés and sound artificial - especially in action/combat situation. However, there are some interesting ideas regarding the Aliens and their "weaponization". But the performance is atrocious - so bad I thought it was done by A.I. The narrator does not seem to master the different intonations that goes with punctuation or when expressing different feelings (let's leave it at that). Do not waste a credit on this book.

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A bad Aliens rip off

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Évalué le: 2024-12-06

There is absolutely nothing original in that book regarding the aliens. Those familiar with the movie Aliens will recognize similar situations, similar characters, even similar sentences... However, the performance of Shiromi Arserio is very good: but it can't rescue this bad story. I am glad I got this one free, because it was disappointing and not worth a credit.

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Entertaining... Funny... with Greek Gods!

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Évalué le: 2023-12-03

While you are cracking with laughter and fully entertained, you can only marvel at the author reinventing the genre by integrating Greek mythology... on steroids. R.C Bray - outstanding as usual - makes listening to this book a pure delight. Highly recommended.

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Just boring...

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Évalué le: 2023-10-12

I love the Mountain Man series but not this one. Other reviews have underline the flaws in this part of the story. I would ad that this could have been an opportunity to explore Gus' past: his family, his relationships, etc. At the very least to help us understand were his deep anxieties / depression come from... Because without those elements, Gus looks nothing like the character he will become. To conclude: not only does this book not had anything to the story, it is just boring... Despite R.C. Bray outstanding performance.

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History written by an FBI agent and a journalist

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Évalué le: 2022-07-23

If you have only general knowledge about Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and Rosenberg, you might be interested by this book. If, on the other hand, you were looking for Rosenberg’s diary and an in-depth analysis by historians and specialists; then you will be extremely disappointed. This book goes in many directions that are not necessarily irrelevant to its main subject but would be better suited for an introductory book on the period. An important part of the book is also about the life of Robert Kempner, the Jewish German lawyer and Nuremberg US prosecutor, who kept until his death the diaries in his personal files. Again, not necessarily uninteresting, but not what I was expecting. More promising seems "The Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust", by Jürgen Matthäus and Frank Bajohr.

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Very well written and interesting, but bias

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Évalué le: 2021-10-27

Sean McMeekin is a good writer and knows how to tell a story. He is extremely well served by the narration of Kevin Stillwell. But this a history book, i.e. a reconstruction of the past based on evidence. History, like science, constantly revisit knowledge, adds to, or changes it. “New history of…” are therefore much welcomed, if you back them up with solid documents or facts, and that you are extremely prudent in your interpretations. On this level, Stalin’s War is problematic. It presents a lot of hypotheses as thesis, but the demonstration is not always convincing. For example, one can claim that Stalin wished that Japan invaded Manchuria, if there is evidence proving that. But it is not the same as saying that Stalin pushed Tokyo to do it and it worked. Especially if you have not examined in detail the Japanese sources to see what Tokyo’s motivations were. When Stalin did not invade immediately Poland in 1939, it may have been a political maneuver, but there were logistical reasons as well: the Red army was not yet ready to attack - but did nevertheless soon after the Germans complained. World War II is a very complex subject, and one must be weary of monolithic explanations, especially ideologically driven ones. That being said, McMeekin brings a lot of factual and detailed information’s, for example lend-lease figures, that are really interesting.

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Disappointing...

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Évalué le: 2021-06-01

To write a book on 2,000 years of Christianity is a tremendously ambitious endeavor, and one that an historian should not undertake alone. The subject is too vast and require specialization for several periods and geographical areas. This led, in Dominion, to the distortions of events, like the Crusades, which were not a conflict between two players (Christians and Muslims). There were four major groups : the Muslim Turks, the Christian “Latins”, the Muslim Arabs, and the Christian Romans (which never called themselves Byzantines, contrary to what Mr. Holland claims). At times, Muslims fought Christians but also Muslims, and Christians fought Muslims but also Christians, as politics and economic goals played often a more significant role than religion. Another problem with the book is the preponderance given to religious or spiritual factors to explain events. The question of the celibacy for priests for example, was a also measure to stop the feudalization of the Church, which was in danger of losing its vassals and properties, as bishops were transmitting them from father to son… The Pope was a very temporal ruler as the Head of the Papal States, constituted around 750, from territories “appropriated” from the Emperor of Constantinople (false Donation of Constantine), following an alliance with the Carolingien Franks, an event of capital importance for Western Christendom – not mentioned by Mr. Holland. Few lines as well on the Christian Orthodoxy of the Medieval Roman Empire of Constantinople – even though Christianity was one until 1204 (contrary to what Mr. Holland claims, the schism of 1071 did not mark a permanent rupture). The Roman missionaries brought Christianity to the Slavic world, to Ethiopia and other African countries. The Christian Empire, led by an Empereur (Basileus Autokrator) which claimed to be the lieutenant of God of earth, considered that war was to be avoided at all costs. Killing at war was seen as a murder, a sin, and soldiers had to make penance when they came back. The Romans were horrified during the Crusades when they saw Latin clergymen taking part in battle, as for them it was to commit murder with the same hands that held the body of Christ. Did not that “Eastern” Christianism deserve as much place as Protestantism? For all those reasons, and others, I have found the book disappointing.

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