Krieg ohne Ende?

Steffen Groth should get hazard pay for narrating *Krieg ohne Ende?*—not for the content (which is harrowing enough), but for embodying the emotional whiplash of Michael Lüders’ prose. One moment, Groth’s voice is a scalpel slicing through the myth of Israel’s ‘David vs. Goliath’ narrative; the next, it’s a clenched fist pounding home the sheer banality of military bureaucracy in Gaza. He nails the German cadence to perfection, letting phrases like ‘systematische Entrechtung’ (systematic disenfranchisement) linger with the weight they deserve. That said, the book stumbles when it assumes too much prior knowledge: Lüders name-checks figures like Menachem Begin or Ariel Sharon without recapping their atrocities, leaving newcomers scrambling to Wikipedia. The pacing also drags during the chapter on post-1967 settlements, where the granular detail feels like homework rather than illumination. Still, Groth’s performance elevates the material into something approaching essential listening—particularly his chilling impersonation of a Hamas militant’s justification for October 7th, delivered in a tone that’s equal parts defiant and hollow. If you’ve ever wanted a audiobook that doesn’t just inform but *unsettles*, this is it. Just don’t listen on an empty stomach.