World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts That Riveted a Nation

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There was no television, no satellites and no information superhighway to spread the news when Hitler invaded Poland. There was radio. Murrow not only invented modern broadcast journalism from the streets of London, he recruited reportersthat covered the war from capitals and battlefields. CD includes actual broadcasts.There was no television, no satellites and no information superhighway to spread the news when Hitler invaded Poland. There was radio. CBS was the only radio network that remained in Europe when war first broke out. Edward R. Murrow, CBS's overseas news director, not only invented modern, on-the-scene broadcast journalism from the streets of London, he recruited a team of reporters that covered the war from capitals and battlefields across Europe, North Africa and Asia. Eric Sevareid, William L. Shirer, Howard K. Smith and others captured the incredible drama of World War II and brought it home to an America newly transfixed by radio. Murrow and his "Boys" were young and eager not only to report and analyze the news of the war, but willing to put themselves on the line to tell the story--from Murrow's rooftop broadcasts in London during air raids to Eric Sevareid's parachuting over Burma from a crippled aircraft and Howard K. Smith's narrow escape from Nazi Germany on December 6, 1941. They reported on the major events of World War II, shaping the way Americans thought about the war and setting the standard for the new art of broadcast journalism.