Voices from the Air
The ABC War Correspondents Who Told the Stories of Australians in the Second World War
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Narrateur(s):
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Chris Winter
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Auteur(s):
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Tony Hill
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An untold tale of Australians at war: the first ABC war correspondents and how radio broadcast from the battlefields to those at home waiting for news.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, a new breed of reporters joined the ranks of war correspondents - and through the reach and power of radio, Australians back home heard their voices and their stories shaped from the sounds of battle, out of the white noise of the ether.
Australian forces defended our long shoreline against the threat of invasion, and more than 500,000 Australians went into battle overseas. They fought on the dusty soil of the Middle East and North Africa, in the snow-topped hills of Greece, on the beaches of the Pacific and in the sweltering jungles of Malaya and New Guinea. And the first ABC war correspondents were on the front lines with them.
The story of these correspondents is a story of Australians at war and a tale of personal struggle, humour, tragedy and achievement. From Chester Wilmot's gripping accounts of the Siege of Tobruk to Dudley Leggett trekking with the diggers through the mud of the Kokoda Trail, Haydon Lennard helping to free Australian nurses from a Japanese prison camp and John Elliott's shocking death in the final campaign in Borneo, ABC correspondents shared the highs, the lows and the dangers of the front line with the troops.
Tony Hill's own experience as a foreign correspondent led him in search of the first ABC war correspondents and to a compelling and largely untold story. He is passionate about telling this story of the war, about a remarkable group of men and how they reported from the warfront - how they changed the reporting of war and how the war changed their lives.
©2016 Tony Hill; First published in English by HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited in 2016. This audio version produced by arrangement with HarperCollins Publishers Australia Pty Limited. (P)2016 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdCe que les auditeurs disent de Voices from the Air
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Ryan F
- 2021-10-26
A walk through time...
I purchased this book because of some research I was doing for a writing project. I was looking for an audiobook that focussed on Australia during WWII. Because there wasn't much on this topic in audio form I took a chance on this book and am I ever glad I did. It's was a wonderful listening experience. The book tells the story of 10-plus Australian journalists who were embedded with the troops for many of Australia's major battles. This form of journalism (the embedded radio-journalist) was entirely new and so the men that fulfilled these roles were true pioneers. What these men did, what they endured and the journalism that they delivered is hard to believe by today's standards.
The book is chronological so it starts with the Australian's fighting in the Middle East and ends with the various battles that took place in Pacific Theatre. In total, it gives you a good feel for the contribution that Australia made to the war, but what's great about the book are the accounts of the individual journalists. The author gives accounts of their various assignments by summarizing and reading actual dispatches from each of the journalists. The author also provides an excellent feel for the trials these men had to endure: the weather, the fighting, the disease, and the military censors. Without a doubt it was a brutal job and these men deserve every credit the frontline soldiers received.
The author wraps up the book nicely by providing an epilogue indicating what happened to each of the journalists after the war. I found this quite satisfying.
One thing that was an issue with the listen was the actual dispatches that journalists made. There are several recordings in the book. Now, this was super cool for the most part, but many of the recordings were of poor quality and were difficult to understand. But in the grand scheme, this is a minor concern and I understand completely why they were included.
I really enjoyed this book and if you have any interest in WWII then I would recommend this unique and highly interesting audiobook to you.
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