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The Giant Awakens: The After Dunkirk Series, Book 4 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Lee Jackson (Author), Steve Rausch (Narrator), Severn River Publishing (Publisher)
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The world is at war.

Japan has just attacked Pearl Harbor. In London, Prime Minister Churchill disappears. In Washington, President Roosevelt faces an alliance with conflicting objectives. In the Soviet Union, dictator Joseph Stalin watches a Nazi onslaught maul his country.

From their isolated perch on Sark Island, feudal rulers Dame Marian Littlefield and her husband oppose their German occupiers in the only way left to them—through a battle of wits. They wonder about the location and well-being of their offspring, Paul, Claire, Lance, and Jeremy.

Meanwhile, Paul engages in intelligence operations in Manhattan and Washington, DC. Claire works with Americans decoding enemy messages. Lance conspires to escape with other POWs at Oflag IV-C within the walls of Colditz Castle. Jeremy leaves his heart with Amélie in France to join the British commandos for the greatest raid in history.

And in Moscow, the Russian winter has just set in.

The saga of the Littlefield family intensifies in The Giant Awakens, the fourth installment in Lee Jackson's epic After Dunkirk series.

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  1. Listening Length
    16 hours and 29 minutes
  2. Author
    Lee Jackson
  3. Narrator
    Steve Rausch
  4. Audible release date
    June 7, 2022
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Severn River Publishing
  7. ASIN
    B0B13815TJ
  8. Version
    Unabridged
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    Audiobook
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Listening Length 16 hours and 29 minutes
Author Lee Jackson
Narrator Steve Rausch
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date June 07, 2022
Publisher Severn River Publishing
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0B13815TJ
Best Sellers Rank #69,567 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#322 in World War II Historical Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#748 in Fiction Sagas
#803 in World War II Historical Fiction (Books)

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Trudy D
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing & detailed WW2 historical fiction
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2023
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Over the last two years I got buried in WW2 historical fiction books. Unfortunately this book and the next got buried deep in the pile. I have lost count of how many books I have read on the subject. The stories took place in many different locations. The stories dealt with many different situations. The problem was each book only dealt with one thing: German occupancy in the Channel Islands, prison life and escape from Colditz Castle, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt making plans at the Whitehouse, the battles at Guadalcanal, just to name few. When reading each book there was no awareness of anything else taking place at the same time somewhere else in the world.

The Giant Awakens takes numerous events between December 1941 and November 1942 and puts them together in one story allowing the reader a better understanding of the challenges the allies faced. The author uses the lives of the Littlefield family as a way of taking the reader into the war, showing how things were planned and some of the results.

The parents are on Sark Island struggling to survive under Nazi rule. The are slowly dying of malnutrition and the necessities to survive. Communication with their children, fighting for their freedom is sporadic at best.

Their daughter, Claire allows for glimpses into the inner workings of Bletchley Park. Decisions are made based on information accrued by those listening to the radio waves. Puzzles are solved. Situations are realized without the knowledge of the British subjects.

Claire isn't the only brilliant mind within the family. Paul works in intelligence and is soon flying all over to places I haven't even read books about yet. His work allows the reader to see what happens behind closed doors. He is a fly on the wall in numerous meeting and the reader is right there with him.

While Paul travels on a plane, on a boat or in a car his brother, Lance, is planning yet another escape from Colditz Castle, Germany. His life and the lives of other prisoners is Hogan's Heroes without the comedy. It was amazing to see how cooperation, planning and staging were practiced in order to have successful escapes. I loved how it was all done right under the noses of their captors.

It was Jeremy's missions that brought me to the battlefield. I am embarrassed over my lack of knowledge on many of the operations. I had heard of the commandos but was clueless to how vast a unit it was and the training involved.

Jeremy gave me the European battles while their cousin, Josh, tells the story of the United States entering the war. America may have been avoiding the war but now they are in the thick of it. Little did I know how much President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were doing behind everyone's backs to be ready and to aid.

Without books like The Giant Awakens I would have a difficult time understanding what people went through during the war. Without books like this I would have a hard time grasping how much went on at the same time. Conflicts were going on at numerous locations at the same time. The war wasn't just take care of what happens now but more like a chessboard, with moves planned way into the future. We need books like The Giant Awakens to remind us that war needs to prevented. We cannot allow the horrors of WW2 to be repeated.
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Bobwhite
4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing.
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024
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Another exciting trek deeper into WWII. Finally the Americans get their boots muddied. Of course, the worst is yet to come. Continuing to follow the Littlefield family through their different contributions to the war effort is interesting. A unique way to present real drama with a little fiction.
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Peter
5.0 out of 5 stars Intensely interesting
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2024
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Learned so much in this book about both theatres if the war. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves history. Especially WW2. A lot of amazing information about Saint Nazarine and Dieppe. And the French. Much skipped over in schools
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S. Wright
5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing Historical Fiction on WWII
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2022
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With Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance being the gold standard for historical fiction on World War II, one wonders why anyone else would even bother to write in that genre. But Lee Jackson has with the After Dunkirk series and he has managed to find another way in and around the stories of World War II that is well worth your time to read. The Giant Awakens is his fourth book.

Where as Wouk covered all the major battles and events of World War II, Mr. Jackson takes you places that War and Remembrance did not. He gives us a front row seat into the French resistance. He takes us on the commando raid that was Saint-Nazaire. He takes us in depth into the assault on Dieppe of 1942. We witness the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. We follow a POW escape at Colditz Castle. On Guadalcanal, the Battle of Edson’s Ridge is front and center. And a seldom covered aspect of Operation Torch planning - how to deal with the French troops in North Africa - is detailed right down to Mark Clark’s demand that Vichy French Admiral Francois Darlan order the French troops to stand down.

And whereas Wouk gave us a front row seat to the Franklin Roosevelt presidency via Pug Henry, Mr. Jackson takes us inside the head of Winston Churchill with all the politics, victories, defeats, and humor that entails via Paul Littlefield.

Through it all the Littlefield family is our fictional thread that ties it all together. Will Amelie’ and Jeremy survive their life of espionage? Will Paul and Ryan ever find a way to togetherness? Will Claire ever find love in a world torn by war? Will Horton open his eyes to Chantal? Who will live and who will not?

Am I saying the After Dunkirk series in general or The Giant Awakens specifically is in a league with War and Remembrance? I am not. But the fact that I even compare one to the other should be compliment enough.

The Giant Awakens is a very enjoyable read. It is accessible for young and older adults alike. It is refreshingly free of profanity and gratuitous sex or graphic descriptions of war violence. Jackson is not trying to hammer home the graphic horror of war. He is trying to tell the history of WWII from a predominantly British perspective with a fictional thread to engage us in that history. And he mightily succeeds.
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C.J.T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing WW-2 reading !!
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
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Author Lee Jackson's books may likely be portraying the tragic times ahead Americans will relive if our current dictatorship succeeds in disarming citizens & overthrowing our nation.
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Manazon
4.0 out of 5 stars History or Novel?
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2023
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The writing is very good, and the editing is great (Very few questions on grammar, etc.).

Sometimes the description of the what is happening in different wartime theaters is tedious using the way the author chooses to disclose it. A pure description is not my idea of the best method in a book that has been described as an action novel (historical fiction).

I heartily approve of the parts that describe what might happen when the dictators start to take control by using false information, aka propaganda, and try to say the Other side is doing it (who, us? Nahhh;-/). Also the describing of the loss of the Constitutional freedoms, free of any other country...(or a World Organization) who would shut you down.

So far, there has been no mention of the states in the ME who were all in on the side of the National Socialists...a big problem. The future will show that, in further books, I'm sure.
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Kindle Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars ww2 must read
Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2024
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The series is a fabulous summary of the entire war, written with a believable story line but full of actual events. Takes a birds eye view of the war from the top leaders. You learn how individual events affected the global structure of the war and how any one event could have changed the worlds outcome. Thank you lee Jackson. Well researched,well written.
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stephen dancer
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2024
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Hard to put down
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Paul Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes 4 * sometimes 5
Reviewed in Australia on December 30, 2022
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This book 4 moves at a blistering pace covering the activities of 4+ people, so you have to wait sometimes as the author closes a chapter and jumps to another protagonist. He went over events in previous books in the series which I found irritating, I suppose to bring up to speed readers who missed a book. The details in the planning various military incursions was amazing and to me, I had to speed read some of it because it was so detailed - as I imagine it really was. Hats off to the level of research in this book. I will read book 5.
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A.R.S
5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2023
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A good read if you like war stories based on fact
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Barney J Williams.
4.0 out of 5 stars Ok
Reviewed in Australia on July 3, 2022
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This book was spoiled for me by the contrived conversations between characters used to explain contexts., and the incredibly unrealistic positioning of characters in position "just to observe" or "advise". Once or twice would be fine, but it happens throughout the book.
Small point, but the ANZACs were in North Africa for the whole of the campaign. They figured largely in the Tobruk sieges, gaining the name of the "the rats of Tobruk".
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