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Beaufighter Boys

By: Graham Pitchfork, ACM Sir David Cousins KCB AFC RAF [RTD] - foreword
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
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Summary

Researched many years ago by the author for a project which did not come to fruition, Beaufighter air and ground crew gave freely of their stories which ranged from complete memoirs to brief anecdotes.

Graham Pitchfork has built on these reminiscences to trace the roles of Beaufighter squadrons spread across all the theaters of World War Two operations. From home bases, through north-west Europe, North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean to the far Far East and south-west Pacific, the Beaufighter served far and wide as did the crews of the RAF, RAAF, SAAF, and New Zealand and Canadian squadrons. All are covered in this quite unique book to be savored by all those interested in the war in the air from 1939-1945.

©2019 Graham Pitchfork (P)2019 Tantor
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Terrible narration, terrible.

I wish that (especially American people) would research how to pronounce words. This narration was absolutely shocking! From miss pronunciation of places all over the world to getting the names of aircraft wrong!!

Please, Tantor Audiobooks, do your homework, or get people who have a vested interest in history.

Anyone who listens to this story and hasn't followed any air history before or has any knowledge of geography and places will make a fool of themselves repeating fromthis particular rendition.

I stopped listening several times in order to calm down..... and stop laughing.

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Shame

It was like a robot talking in this one monotonous tone. It’s a shame I think if this had been narrated by someone else you could have a good book

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Gutted! (please take note)

I only got about 15 minutes into this book before having to stop, it is read by a mechanical American voice and not a human that could read it with the passion and emotion and empathy a book like this deserves, its rather like listening to a telephone answering machine, im gutted as I'm really interested in the Beaufighter, I had to grit my teeth and go through it and in the end its a really interesting book with lots of detail and fascinating accounts from pilots and navigators that flew in Beaufighters

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Excellent author and story appalling narration

An amazing story. I know the author and his books are invariably first rate The narration ruined the book I found myself trying to translate the mangled English into something understandable. This series is generally excellent too but, my goodness, this one pulls down the overall quality Do not listen. Read the book instead

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Great book but weirdly annoying too!

The stories of the pilots experiences in this book are well worth listening to. You get a real sense of what it was like to fly the Beau!
However................... The American publisher and voice actor has decided to mangle the English language with some ridiculous American pronunciation of place names and aircraft names.
Given this is a book about an iconic British aircraft and it's almost entirely British crews at times, just sounds stupid!
Look past that and it's a great book.

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Needed an English Narrator

Good book but spoilt by using an American Narrator, wrong pronunciation of English towns, planes, dates and so on 😞

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Great sory ruined by poor presentation

I'm pretty sure Graham Pitchfork did not approve this audio track. Continual mispronunciations of place names, equipment and even aircraft names, continually grate throughout this presentation.

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A book that needed some love

I was looking forward to hearing this, but the narrator was barely one step up from a computer voice, monotone delivery, mispronounces especially in the first few chapters, sliding from subheadings to paragraphs without pause.
The actual content is good, especially the bomber support, is it worthy of your time?....barely

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Great story shame about the narrator

Given it's by a UK author a British narrator would have been more appropriate. The poor annunciation and pronunciation of place names, Sqn names numbers as well as the inconsistent pronunciation of Sqn numbers really detracted from the story.

The narrator seemed to have little interest or knowledge about the period and it showed this detracted from the expireance. I'll read the book instead.


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A spoilt story

I confess that I could not summon the enthusiasm to keep listening to this story.

The extremely poor delivery from the narrator totally ruined the experience. I have never ever heard to many mispronunciations of aircraft names and European places ! So much so that the entire experience was spoilt

I shall be returning the book for a credit

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