The Sound of War : Memoirs of a CBC Correspondent /

The Sound of War : Memoirs of a CBC Correspondent /

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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 souther...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stursberg, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Stursberg, Peter.
1939-1945
War correspondents > Canada > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Journalists > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Press coverage > Canada.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Canadian.
Personal narratives > Canadian.
Biographies.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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

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