The Sound of War: Memoirs of a CBC Correspondent (Paperback or Softback)

Stursberg, Peter

ISBN 10: 0802077498 / ISBN 13: 9780802077493

Verlag: University of Toronto Press 10/13/1995, 1995

The Sound of War: Memoirs of a CBC Correspondent. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-9780802077493

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As a CBC war correspondent, Peter Stursberg covered the first full-scale action of the Canadian troops in the Second World War, the landing in Sicily on 10 July 1943. He was the only Canadian correspondent to enter both Axis capitals, Rome and Berlin, with the Western Allies. Stursberg also reported on the Italian campaign, the invasion of Southern France, the crossing of the Rhine, and the liberation of Holland and Norway.

The Sound of War is a highly personal account from a journalist who was on the front line, observing the men in battle. It is also an insider’s story of what war was like on a day-to-day basis, in London, Algiers, Sicily, Italy, and northwestern Europe.

Stursberg, whose voice from the war became well known in Canada, also participated in another historic event. The establishment and organization of the CBC’s overseas news reporting during the war formed the foundation for the creation of a national news service. Radio, with its immediacy and impact, became a significant medium for the carrying of war information to the home front; its more dramatic coverage challenged that of the print news. Stursberg explains how the CBC’s approach to broadcasting from the front outdid that of its rivals in radio, the BBC and the American networks.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: PETER STURSBERG was born in China and was educated in British Columbia, England, and Quebec. He has been employed as a war, foreign, and UN correspondent as well as reporting on national affairs from Ottawa for twenty-three years. Stursberg has been described as the ‘pre-eminent practitioner of oral history in Canada.’ Among the dozen books that he has written is Journey into Victory.

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Titel: The Sound of War: Memoirs of a CBC ...
Verlag: University of Toronto Press 10/13/1995
Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
Einband: Paperback or Softback
Zustand: New
Art des Buches: Book