Capturing Kaltenbrunner

The Pursuit, Capture, and Trial of Hitler's Hidden Gestapo Chief

By: Robert Matteson, Sumner Matteson, Fredric Matteson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The war was over, but one of Hitler’s most dangerous men was still on the run—and capturing him would take courage, cunning, and relentless pursuit.

Three days after the official end of World War II, U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps Special Agent Robert E. Matteson led a high-stakes mission into the Austrian Alps to locate and apprehend one of the most dangerous and elusive figures of the Third Reich: SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner—head of Hitler’s Gestapo, Security Service, and Criminal Police, and the superior of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann. Virtually unknown to the public, Kaltenbrunner had gone into hiding high in the Austrian Alps, hoping to escape justice for his role in the atrocities of the Holocaust and Nazi terror.

Told in Matteson’s own words, Capturing Kaltenbrunner is a gripping first-person account of wartime espionage, relentless pursuit, and extraordinary courage. From the tense intelligence-gathering operations to the dramatic nighttime mountain raid that led to Kaltenbrunner’s arrest, Matteson recounts in vivid detail the historic events that culminated in the capture of the highest-ranking Nazi official still at large at war’s end. The story continues through Kaltenbrunner’s trial at Nuremberg, where his crimes were finally exposed to the world.

Part military memoir, part historical thriller, and part reckoning with justice, Capturing Kaltenbrunner is a unique window into a nearly hidden chapter of World War II, told by the man who lived it.

artificial intelligence; yes but who's?

I will never like artificial intelligencedot it's like cheating. I admire those who read these stories to us. And artificial intelligence just doesn't seem quite readydot if you know what I mean.

Don’t get this audiobook!

The virtual voice is terrible. It’s a male voice that is pleasant but the cadence is abnormal, many words are mispronounced, and if you’re wondering why the word ‘dot’ appears so often - the virtual voice is reading periods at the end of sentences. I really wanted to listen to this book so I stuck it out but it was an unpleasant experience. If I could give the performance a zero, I would.

Ruined by Audible's machine reading it

A good book to fill in the backstory on Kaltenbrunner.
But Audible ruined the listening experience by using a machine to read it aloud.
The machine reader mispronounces words, reads everything, including the captions on photographs the listener cannot see, the complete web address for sites referenced ("https//" etc",) pauses in wrong places thereby confusing the listener into thinking a sentence has ended, and even reads aloud punctuation marks, e.g., "dot" where there's a period.
Can Audible seriously think people will buy such products?
Good grief!

As much as I enjoy listening to books while driving and walking, if it's a trend at Audible, I will cancel my subscription.