Soldier of Gideon (Casca (Americana)) [Abridged] [Audio CD]

Barry Sadler (Author), Carol Eason (Narrator)

Book Description

Series: Casca (Americana) | Publication Date: February 2005

Casca returns to the Middle East in the 20th century, signed on to fight a religious war. He expects a slaughter, but how could he know that he has joined a devastatingly efficient army? For what begins as a massacre ends six days later in victory! Original.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Americana Publishing; Abridged edition (February 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588072940
• ISBN-13: 978-1588072948
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,313,798 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Confused timeline and too much fighting, September 13, 2000

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Tony Roberts (Bristol, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soldier of Gideon (Casca #20) (Paperback)

The thing about writing a series of historically related books is to keep a timeline as accurately as possible. In this instance the writer who took Barry Sadler's original notes (Sadler did not complete this one) made a real mess of it. The incidents in this overdone novel relate to the 1967 Six-Day War but chronologically in the Casca series it occurs AFTER 1970 (I think Sadler was going to write about the Yom Kippur War). Also this book tends to be one mad assault on an Arab fortress after another and it gets boring. The only relief is a brief lull in Jerusalem when Casca does a bit of reminiscing. Otherwise its really a waste of the readers time unless you like a Steve Spielberg-style all-action Rambo all-out war from page 1 to the finish. YAWN.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars LAME, February 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Soldier of Gideon (Casca #20) (Paperback)

This the last book in the CASCA series is a letdown. Haveing read the other 19, I expected much more.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the last, and certainly not the best., May 22, 1998

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[e-mail] (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soldier of Gideon (Casca #20) (Paperback)

There are two other Casca books written after this one. I really didn't care for this one as much as most of the others. Most of the story is somehow lacking in personality or any sort of imagination. I would reccomend not reading this one (or number 21 for that matter) until you have checked out the other ones in the series. Number 22 was pretty good ,if I remember correctly, as well.