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War On Radio: The Pacific and European Theaters (Topics Entertainment-History (CD))

War On Radio: The Pacific and European Theaters (Topics Entertainment-History (CD))
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WAR ON RADIO, THE (8 CD AUDIOBOOK) (AUDIO BOOK)

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #713257 in Books
  • Brand: Topics Entertainment
  • Published on: 2002-03-01
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 8
  • Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

Totally lacking and not what I expected1
I thought this was going to be snippets of radio reports from the era, cuts from news broadcasts and the like but all it was, for the most part, was copies of Army radio shows 1/2 hour at a time. There were some interesting parts, like FDR's speech to congress, but that was about it. The radio shows would have been interesting if we heard just a small bit of them, but it was almost as if they got copies of the shows, slapped them on a CD and called it "War on Radio". Hey wait! Thats exactly what they did. Another annoying thing was that none of this was in chronogical order (or any order that I could surmise).
Don't waste your money on this one. Especially if you are looking for "news type" reports from the front, or trying to get a flavor of the radio reports during the WWII period.

World War II On the Radio Airwaves in America5
This is a splendid 8 CD set with an essential selection of radio broadcasts from the era of the Second World War:
CD 1 - Churchill speaks after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany; The attack on Pearl Harbor; German radio propaganda.
CD 2 - Eastern Front broadcasts from France and Germany.
CD 3 - Western Front broadcasts including a harrowing eyewitness account of the Bataan Death March.
CD 4 - Report of the Allied Air Force over Japan and Germany.
CD 5 - Complete show of the "Fighting Army Air Force" from the summer of 1945.
CD 6 - Battlefront broadcasts from Guam and a "Fighting AAF" broadcast.
CD 7 - Broadcasts from the battlefront on Iwo Jima.
CD 8 - The surrender broadcast of General Wainwright on Corregidor in 1942 and General MacArthur's 1945 speech on the return to the Philippines.

Narration is mercifully limited on this set and the cost is a great value. There is no clamshell case but the package contains liner notes and reviews the content on the CD's.
A must-have keepsake for enthusiasts of Old Time Radio in America.

Additional Thoughts3
This was a very interesting glimpse into the life of soldiers in WWII, and contains some interesting radio broadcasts from the era.

The quality of the audio is on par with the technology available for the time and the publishers did not run it through any filters, (or if they did some of it was very poor quality to begin with). However, this product does deliver on what it advertises.

Its historical significance is only appreciable, to those who already study the events of WWII; this product is in no way a solid tool to use, other than enhancing existing resources with some interesting audio clips.

If you are looking for some audio clips from the era, and will not mind the (understandable) quality issues of the clips, then this may be a good product for you.