The Sound of War : Memoirs of a CBC Correspondent / Peter Stursberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stursberg, Peter, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stursberg, Peter.

World War, 1939-1945--Journalists--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Canadian.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Fifty years ago, on 10 July 1943, Canadian troops landed in Sicily. It was the first full-scale action of the Second World War involving Canadians (apart from Dieppe), and Peter Stursberg covered the action as a CBC war correspondent. He went on to cover the Italian campaign, the invasion of southern France, the liberation of the Netherlands, and the entry of the Allies into Berlin. The Sound of War is a highly personal account from a journalist who was on the front lines, observing the men in battle. It is an insider's account 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 basis 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.

Contents:

Cover; Preface; Prologue; 1 News Comes to the CBC; 2 Recording the Alcan; 3 Radio Goes to War; 4 'Eyes Front' and All That; 5 Ordeal of General McNaughton; 6 Into Action without a Mike; 7 First Sound of Liberation; 8 Broadcasting on the Run; 9 Underground at Anzio; 10 Battle for Rome; 11 Pope Pius Gets on Side; 12 To Cannes and the Vercors; 13 Crossing the Rubicon; 14 Home for Christmas 1944; 15 Victory Parades; 16 Hitler's Spoon and Fork; Epilogue; Bibliography; CBC War Recordings; Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7395-2

OCLC:

1129173081