Название: World War II on the Air: Edward R.Murrow And The Broadcasts That Riveted A Nation Автор: Mark Bernstein, Alex Lubertozzi
Издательство: Sourcebooks Inc.
Год: 2020
Страниц: 289
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
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.
World War II is a massive, daunting subject. Focusing on the reporting of the Murrow Boys allowed us to tell the story of the war in a more cohesive, straightforward way. It also meant that much of the story would necessarily be left out. The war in Asia is touched on - memorably, by Cecil Brown in Singapore and Eric Sevareid in China - but not in great detail. It’s not that the war with Japan was not covered on the radio, or by CBS. But it does reflect that coverage in the Pacific was for the most part limited to reports far from the action—a result of the technical constraints at the time of covering island warfare. Despite the limitations of the technology, Murrow and his band managed to cover the conflict live from London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Ankara, Singapore, the Soviet Union, China, Australia, and North Africa, and pioneered the use of recordings from the beaches at Normandy, a C-47 flying over Holland, and house-to-house fighting in Aachen, Germany.
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.
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