Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II audiobook runs 6.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Mike Ortego (about 4.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 6.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.5 hours, it is shorter than 69% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Mike Ortego
Mike Ortego narrates 25 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 297 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
1,739 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II is an audiobook by Henry Langrehr and Jim DeFelice: a 6.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Mike Ortego, released May 5, 2020, on the Memoirs and Military (Biography & Memoir) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mike Ortego
- Released
- May 5, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Military (Biography & Memoir), Military (History)
- ISBN
- 9780063027459
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How long is the Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II audiobook?
Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II runs 6.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.3 hours.
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Who narrates Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II?
Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II is narrated by Mike Ortego.