Mary S. (mscottcgp) - , reviewed on 9/18/2019 + 231 more book reviews

I've read a few of Bill O'Reilly's Killing... books(Killing Lincoln and Killing Jesus) and they were pretty good on the whole. I listened to this one and was unimpressed. First of all, his voice is unsuited to the narration of an audiobook. There are gaps in the narration like he got to the end of a page and realized he was in the middle of a sentence; it was very distracting since he did this about 15 times.Secondly, he mispronounced SEVERAL words and not because of his NY accent.
He pronounced "sentries" as "centuries" which was confusing the 1st time and irritating the next couple of times.I finally wrote down a lot of these mispronounciations:
vertebra
Beatrice
rations
confluence
and then there are words that either aren't words or were used incorrectly (acrosst/acrossed), pivotable unstead of pivotal.
As far as the content of the book was concerned, it was more about the battles of Europe in WWII and a primer on WWII than it was about Patton specifically.Pretty much a rehash of several WWII books. Since I already read a lot of WWII books, I was disappointed to not learn much about Patton, the man and soldier.

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