THE WAR AS IT WAS HEARD
VOICES FROM BRITAIN. By Henning Krabbe. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, Me: KRABBE, former BBC announcer, calls his book a broadcast history | of the war, but it is not history as the historian understands it. It is in fact a collection of talks and despatches broadcast by the BBC from 1939 to 1945. The author’s purpose is to present some of the significant events of those years and in general he succeeds. Most of the important speeches by Mr. Churchill are’ included, and a number from other allied leaders. And it is good to have on permanent record such distinguished talks as E. M. Forstet’s "On the Lasting Value of Tolerance." But it is depressing to be reminded of the Atlantic Charter with its high hopes of a better world and the big three’s solemn promise at ‘Teheran "to work together in the peace." The progress of the different campaigns is recorded in despatches from war correspondents, and one from A. L. Curry of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service on the Battle of Alamein will interest readers in this country. "Voices of Britain" is not only a useful ‘record of the war, as it was heard from London. It is also, in a sense, a tribute to the distinguished part played by the BBC in the most difficult period in its history. There are numerous illustrations, most
of them very good.
T.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 13
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239THE WAR AS IT WAS HEARD New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 13
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