I published this on YouTube this morning. The Art of War in Plain English, or How We Get Our Ass Kicked. youtu.be/UJrEoe-c7L0?si=gNOk… via @YouTube

Exiled on the island of Patmos, John writes down a vision. It has seven churches, seven seals, four horsemen, a beast from the sea, and finally a new heaven and a new earth. Revelation is the last book of the Bible and its strangest. Its imagery is meant to be heard aloud, and for most of history that's how people met it. The complete King James text, narrated by Mike Vendetti. Listen: audible.com/pd/The-Book-of-R…

Paul Bäumer is 19 when his schoolmaster talks his whole class into enlisting. By the time they reach the Western Front, the speeches mean nothing. What's left is mud, shellfire, hunger, and the friends he's trying to keep alive. Remarque's 1929 novel is still the clearest account of what the First World War did to the young men who fought it. Unabridged, narrated by Mike Vendetti. Listen: audible.com/pd/All-Quiet-on-…

Michael Vendetti · · 📷Author This was my unit in Vietnam. I was medevaced on Oct 29, 1965. My replacement LT Clinton Anderson, was KIA on 22 February 1966. Today, to say I am bumbed out would be a severe understatement. Earlier, I posted about CPT Steven Thuet from South St Paul, KIA 20 Feb 1968, and then this popped up. Anderson and I graduated in the same class at OCS. Our serial numbers were 13 apart. That claymore that killed Clinton also killed Leo Krumbine, my radio man, and killed SSG Ray, who rode with me to the disembarkation point. I was there when SSG Ray said his last goodbye to his wife and kids.

A Jesuit astrophysicist travels light-years to study the remains of a supernova. What he finds in the ashes shakes his faith in a way science can't fix. Arthur C. Clarke's Hugo-winning short story takes 16 minutes to hear, and you'll be thinking about it long after. The Star on Amazon. The Star Amazon.com: The Star (Audible Audio Edition): Arthur C. Clarke, Mike Vendetti, Spoken Realms: Books

Fellow veterans, I went through basic in 1962 and Infantry OCS after that, bayonet training included. Those of us who trained for close combat know something most civilians never have to think about. Andreas Latzko knew it too. He served in WWI and wrote Heimkehr in 1917, about a soldier who comes home carrying the face of a man he killed. I translated it and narrated the audiobook, The Homecoming. Coming home is the hardest part of the story, and I suspect many of you will recognize it. amazon.com/s... audible.com/.../The-Homecomi…... If The Homecoming stayed with you, please leave a rating or a short review on Audible or Amazon. Even one sentence helps other readers and listeners find this forgotten WWI story. I'd especially like to know which moment hit you hardest

Deep in the African jungle, cut off from the world for fifteen hundred years, a city of Roman soldiers is still standing. In Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1929), Tarzan sets out to find a young explorer who has gone missing in uncharted mountains. What he finds instead is a lost outpost of the Roman Empire, with legions, senators, and emperors still clinging to power, and an arena where captives fight for their lives. Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote more than twenty Tarzan novels, and this one shows why readers kept coming back. It puts the jungle lord up against gladiators and empires, mixing pulp adventure with a lost-world mystery. audible.com/pd/Tarzan-and-th… #Tarzan #EdgarRiceBurroughs #PulpFiction #ClassicAdventure #Audiobooks