Download Voices from the Air: The ABC War Correspondents Who Told the Stories of Australians in the Second World War AudioBook Free

An untold story of Australians at battle: the first ABC battle correspondents and how radio broadcast from the battlefields to those at home looking forward to news. While using outbreak of the next World War, a new variety of reporters became a member of the rates of battle correspondents - and through the reach and ability of radio, Australians back home listened to their voices and their tales formed from the sounds of battle, from the white noises of the ether. Australian causes defended our long shoreline contrary to the threat of invasion, and much more than 500,000 Australians proceeded to go into battle overseas. They fought on the dusty soil of the center 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 battle correspondents were on the front lines with them. The story of these correspondents is a story of Australians at battle and an account 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 dirt of the Kokoda Path, Haydon Lennard assisting to free Australian nurses from a Japanese jail camp and John Elliott's stunning death in the final advertising campaign in Borneo, ABC correspondents distributed the highs, the lows and the dangers of the front series with the soldiers. Tony Hill's own experience as a foreign correspondent led him in search of the first ABC battle correspondents and a compelling and essentially untold story. He's passionate about revealing this story of the battle, about a exceptional group of men and how they reported from the warfront - how they transformed the reporting of battle and the way the war transformed their lives.

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