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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8 View Post
The Mantle of Command, by Nigel Hamilton is a $2.99 Kindle mobi right now. The Whispersync narration is $4.99. So the WS deal is only $7.98. It might be worth 99 cents to someone to go with Amazon/Audible and get the ebook (sync'd with the audio) in addition to the audio, over paying $6.99 at Tantor to get the audio alone.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Thanks. One more consideration is that Tantor books are DRM-free.
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I should have mentioned that. Thanks for doing it.
Something else that I could have mentioned is what the tube guy reminds us of occasionally--you may find the Kindle ebook in libraries with which you have borrowing privileges, so check to see how much the Whispersync narration is for the Kindle ebook. After I had picked out two that I wanted, I remembered to check those things. The narration for one of them was $5.49; the other was $4.99. DRM Freedom is not that important to me. So you know what I did--I borrowed the books and bought the WS narration. That ended up being a savings of $3.50 for just a few minutes work! Plus I got the two ebooks and the syncing benefit.
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Originally Posted by Red Falcon
Mantle Of Command is easily one of the best books I have read on the command structure of the United States Military. It shows in immense detail how FDR and his people took America from a backwater military power and mostly isolationist stance on the world to a Global Superpower that has become the World's Police for better or worse. I found it to be an utterly fascinating study of how America began to get to where she is today and highly recommended this to anybody interested in the ramifications that WW2 had on the rest of the 20th century and even today. The second volume is on my TBR pile.
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Mantle was one of two that I had chosen. I almost always check ratings, and sometimes reviews, before I plunk down money (and sometimes even when they're free--I don't need anymore junk in my libraries). The ratings were very high on this one and, like you, I am fascinated by the transformation of the United States from a third-rate military power (shortly before WWII, the U.S.'s Army was the size of
Romania's; the Navy seemed to be in much better shape, however) into the world's most powerful military, for a time at least. Thanks for the additional kudos on the book--it helped prevent what marketers call "post-purchase cognitive dissonance" (questions and doubts by a person after the purchase of something as to whether or not he or she did the right thing by purchasing it).
My apologies for the lack of formatting of the quote from my original post, at the top. Does anyone know of a way to quote more cleanly the original quote that someone has replied to?