CD track list: -- Introduction -- Anschluss / Edward R. Murrow -- Eve of war / Edward R. Murrow -- War is declared / Edward R. Murrow -- Peace of sorts / William L. Shirer -- Phony war / Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer -- Hitler's return / Mary Marvin Breckinridge -- Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium invaded / William L. Shirer -- Chamberlain resigns / Edward R. Murrow -- German bombing of Paris / Eric Sevareid -- Italy to enter war / Cecil Brown -- Dunkirk/Churchill : we shall never surrender / Edward R. Murrow -- German troops enter Paris / William L. Shirer -- France surrenders at Compiegne Forest / William L. Shirer -- London after dark / Edward R. Murrow -- Bombs over Berlin / William L. Shirer -- London is burning / Edward R. Murrow -- Few German pilots / Edward R. Murrow -- Rooftop air raid / Edward R. Murrow -- Christmas/so long and good luck / Edward R. Murrow -- Bombing has been heavy / Edward R. Murrow -- Big Ben bombed / Larry LeSueur -- Japanese embassy / Eric Sevareid -- Day which will live in infamy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Repulse sunk, Brown saved / Cecil Brown -- Suicide job of the 1942 war / Larry LeSueur -- Algiers / Charles Collingwood -- Axis retreat in North Africa / Winston Burdett -- Invasion of Sicily / Winston Burdett -- Chinese situation / Eric Sevareid -- Race for the possession of Italy / Winston Burdett -- Orchestrated hell / Edward R. Murrow -- Capture of Rome / Winston Burdett -- Sterner stuff lies ahead / Edward R. Murrow -- Eisenhower's Order of the day/D-Day / Edward R. Murrow -- Flying over Normandy / Richard C. Hottelet -- Utah Beach / Charles Collingwood -- Liberation of Paris (premature report) / Richard C. Hottelet -- Paris not yet free / Larry LeSueur -- Market Garden/parachute drop / Edward R. Murrow -- Street fighting / Richard C. Hottelet -- Crossing the Rhine / Howard K. Smith -- Paratroopers / Bill Downs -- Buchenwald / Edward R. Murrow -- V-E Day in New York / William L. Shirer -- V-E Day in Piccadilly Circus / Edward R. Murrow -- 9:15 over Hiroshima / Edward R. Murrow.

The story of World War II was told first not by historians, but by reporters. And no one told that story with more impact than Edward R. Murrow and the remarkable band of reporters he assembled.

World War II on the Air recounts the dramatic stories behind these extraordinary correspondents. And it lets you hear their actual broadcasts, culled from the archives and collected here-many for the first time-on audio CD, narrated by Dan Rather.

When war broke out, there was no TV, no satellites, no Internet to spread the news. There was radio. Murrow and his fellow CBS radio correspondents reported directly to listeners as news unfolded. They invented a new kind of reporting while bringing the events of the war into America’s living rooms from capitals and battlefields all over the world.

Hear the history of the war through more than 50 broadcasts, including reports from:
--a rooftop looking out over London as German bombers buzzed the skies, to…
--a clearing in a forest where Hitler was laying down the terms of France’s surrender…
--a Normandy beach on D-Day…
--soldiers parachuting from a C-47 into Holland…
--a street battle in a crumbling German city before the Battle of the Bulge…

Experience World War II as it happened-with the reporters who lived it and the broadcasts that defined the war for a nation.

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