GROUND ATTACK

A Viet Nam War Novel

By: David L Allin

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

There was a truce on New Year’s Day, 1968, and Third Brigade of 25th Infantry Division used the respite to build a new fire support base near the Cambodian border, in a vast forested area of Viet Nam called War Zone C. They called it Fire Support Base Burt, manned by two infantry battalions and three batteries of artillery. When the truce ended at midnight, January 1, the Communist forces in the area responded by launching a massive assault on the base. Vastly outnumbered, the American soldiers repelled attack after attack and eventually forced the enemy to withdraw after suffering terrible losses. This book describes the buildup of Burt and the long night of deadly action, as seen through the eyes of three fictional young soldiers who lives are forever changed by that battle. The events are real; only the characters are imagined. Experience the vulnerability, the fear, and the everyday heroism of American soldiers just trying to survive an unrelenting ground attack.

AI mispronounciation

the AI'S pronunciations of basic military words and basic Vietnam locations was pretty terrible. The story was 10/10 though.

The book was good

The book was good but the virtual voice was bad. The virtual voice didn't know how to pronounce common terms / acronyms and made it hard to listen to.

AI can not speak "military"

Not only did it not know how to talk in military parlance, it got the locations in Vietnam wrong in their pronunciation. Things like calling a M113 personnel carrier a “M one hundred and thirteen” and calling 1330 hours “one thousand, three hundred and thirty hours” was frustrating. AI has a way to go before I buy another AI book. This took away from a good book.