NOVEMBER 1942 An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II

This composite history of the crucial turning point in WWII seems designed for an ensemble performance. The narrative is pieced together from the words of dozens of participants--soldiers and civilians--40 in all. The global action shifts from North Africa to the South Pacific, from the battle lines of Stalingrad to an obscure physics lab in Chicago. It's a concept built on parallelism and counterpoint, a concept that might have been effectively carried out by three or more voices. Instead, a single narrator, Mark Bramhall, performs the full narrative and all its diversity of voices. Bramhall's range is limited, and his character voices are often strained and unconvincing D.A.W. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2023]