Voices from the Air. ABC War Correspondents of the Second World War

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 386 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An untold story of Australias military history: how World War II was brought into Australian homes by ABC radios intrepid war correspondents.The conflict of 1939 to 1945 brought war and the threat of invasion to Australias shores and sent more than 550,000 Australians into battle overseas. Australians fought on the dusty soil of the Middle East, the hills of Greece, the beaches and sweltering South East Asia, on the seas and in the air and against attacks on the Australian coast. Australian stories from the battlefield were of vital interest and news from home and abroad was critical: in particular, news from the warfronts, from Australias own region and from the Allied powers.In World War I newspapers had been the only source of news but now radio was in homes and at work and a part of Australian daily life. By 1941 there were 1.3 million licensed radios - it was the magic medium, immediate and compelling, connecting with all the power of the human voice and carrying with it the sounds of the wider world.The war was a coming of age for radio and the young national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and led to the birth of the ABC news service. Broadcasters and journalists such as Chester Wilmot, Dudley Leggat, John Hinde and Haydon Lennard honed the skills of a new craft and radio found a new voice in their dispatches from overseas as the ABC sent its own observers and war correspondents to the battlefronts to tell the stories of Australians at war and to bring home the news. This is their story.

ISBN: 9780733335020