Synopses & Reviews
The story of World War II was told first not by historians, but by reporters. And no one told that story with more impact than Edward R. Murrow and the remarkable band of reporters he assembled.
World War II on the Air recounts the dramatic stories behind these extraordinary correspondents. And it lets you hear their actual broadcasts, culled from the archives and collected here-many for the first time-on audio CD, narrated by Dan Rather.
When war broke out, there was no TV, no satellites, no Internet to spread the news. There was radio. Murrow and his fellow CBS radio correspondents reported directly to listeners as news unfolded. They invented a new kind of reporting while bringing the events of the war into America's living rooms from capitals and battlefields all over the world.
Hear the history of the war through more than 50 broadcasts, including reports from:
--a rooftop looking out over London as German bombers buzzed the skies, to?
--a clearing in a forest where Hitler was laying down the terms of France's surrender?
--a Normandy beach on D-Day?
--soldiers parachuting from a C-47 into Holland?
--a street battle in a crumbling German city before the Battle of the Bulge?
Experience World War II as it happened-with the reporters who lived it and the broadcasts that defined the war for a nation.
Synopsis
There was no television, no satellites and no information superhighway to spread the news when Hitler invaded Poland. There was radio. Murrow not only invented modern broadcast journalism from the streets of London, he recruited reporters that covered the war from capitals and battlefields. CD includes actual broadcasts.
Synopsis
There was no television, no satellites and no information superhighway to spread the news when Hitler invaded Poland. There was radio. CBS was the only radio network that remained in Europe when war first broke out. Edward R. Murrow, CBS's overseas news director, not only invented modern, on-the-scene broadcast journalism from the streets of London, he recruited a team of reporters that covered the war from capitals and battlefields across Europe, North Africa and Asia. Eric Sevareid, William L. Shirer, Howard K. Smith and others captured the incredible drama of World War II and brought it home to an America newly transfixed by radio. Murrow and his "Boys" were young and eager not only to report and analyze the news of the war, but willing to put themselves on the line to tell the story--from Murrow's rooftop broadcasts in London during air raids to Eric Sevareid's parachuting over Burma from a crippled aircraft and Howard K. Smith's narrow escape from Nazi Germany on December 6, 1941. They reported on the major events of World War II, shaping the way Americans thought about the war and setting the standard for the new art of broadcast journalism.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-270) and index.
Table of Contents
CD track list : Introduction -- Anschluss / Edward R. Murrow -- Eve of war / Edward R. Murrow -- War is declared / Edward R. Murrow -- Peace of sorts / William L. Shirer -- Phony war / Edward R. Murrow & William L. Shirer -- Hitler's return / Mary Marvin Breckinridge -- Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium invaded / William L. Shirer -- Chamberlain resigns / Edward R. Murrow -- German bombing of Paris / Eric Sevareid -- Italy to enter war / Cecil Brown -- Dunkirk/Churchill : we shall never surrender / Edward R. Murrow -- German troops enter Paris / William L. Shirer -- France surrenders at Compiegne Forest / William L. Shirer -- London after dark / Edward R. Murrow -- Bombs over Berlin / William L. Shirer -- London is burning / Edward R. Murrow -- Few German pilots / Edward R. Murrow -- Rooftop air raid / Edward R. Murrow -- Christmas/so long and good luck / Edward R. Murrow -- Bombing has been heavy / Edward R. Murrow -- Big Ben bombed / Larry LeSueur -- Japanese embassy / Eric Sevareid -- Day which will live in infamy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Repulse sunk, Brown saved / Cecil Brown -- Suicide job of the 1942 war / Larry LeSueur -- Algiers / Charles Colllingwood -- Axis retreat in North Africa / Winston Burdett -- Invasion of Sicily / Winston Burdett -- Chinese situation / Eric Sevareid -- Race for the possession of Italy / Winston Burdett -- Orchestrated hell / Edward R. Murrow -- Capture of Rome / Winston Burdett -- Sterner stuff lies ahead / Edward R. Murrow -- Eisenhower's Order of the day/D-Day / Edward R. Murrow -- Flying over Normandy / Richard C. Hottelet -- Utah Beach / Charles Collingwood -- Liberation of Paris (premature report) / Richard C. Hottelet -- Paris not yet free / Larry LeSueur -- Market Garden/parachute drop / Edward R. Murrow -- Street fighting / Richard C. Hottelet -- Crossing the Rhine / Howard K. Smith -- Paratroopers / Bill Downs -- Buchenwald / Edward R. Murrow -- V-E Day in New York / William L. Shirer -- V-E Day in Piccadilly Circus / Edward R. Murrow -- 9:15 over Hiroshima / Edward R. Murrow.