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Voices from the Air: The ABC war correspondents who told the stories of Australians in the Second World War

✍ Scribed by Hill, Tony

Book ID: 109054708
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Weight: 5 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780733335020

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✦ Synopsis

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 frontlines 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...

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