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The Microphone Wars

Author : Knowlton Nash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Microphone Wars written by Knowlton Nash and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Microphone Wars is the astonishing and sometimes hilarious chronicle of the CBC, full of larger-than-life characters, incidents of skulduggery, and moments of both despair and exhilaration, and all underpinned by the good humour and acumen of its author. The CBC is the most intensely scrutinized institution in Canada. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion on it. Yet, oddly, its history has never been fully told before. But now the missing story that reveals all has been written – by the one person with intimate knowledge of the CBC who can be absolutely fair Knowlton Nash, who retired from the corporation in 1992. Nash brings his extensive contacts, his own experiences, his journalist’s objectivity, and his tremendous research and storytelling skills to the Byzantine tale of Canada’s public broadcaster. Ever since the 1920s, when radio took Canada by storm, there has been war between those who want to use the airwaves solely for commercial profit and those who believe in public broadcasting for its role in education and nation-building. There have been battle between management and producers and stars; between the CBC and successive governments, Liberal and Conservative alike; between the CBC board and its executives; between the private broadcasters and the CBC; even between various CBC luminaries and the bottle. Along with his vivid and intimate portraits of these fights, Nash gives us the stories of the CBC’s many triumphs, from Foster Hewitt’s early play-by-play of Saturday Night hockey games and Matthew Halton’s dramatic broadcasts from the frontlines of the Second World War, to the magic of TV in the 1950s, the renaissance of CBC Radio in the 1970s, and CBC TV’s drama and comedy hit programs in the 1980s. There have been betrayals aplenty too, by governments determined to curb the CBC’s independence by ones means or another, or to starve it into submission, and by insiders plotting the demise of controversial programs and equally controversial producers and personalities. Based on countless hours of research, on interviews with forty major figure from the CBC’s more recent past, and on as many oral history tapes recorded by earlier CBC leaders, The Microphone Wars is the definitive popular history of Canada’s public broadcaster.

The Lermen War

Author : James Taylor
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1649571364
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book The Lermen War written by James Taylor and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lermen War: Humanity's First Contact By: James Taylor In 2100, Humanity begins exploring the vast expanses of the galaxy. By 2145, they have their first contact with the Lermen. After years of tension, in 2252, war between Humanity and their allies and the Lermen breaks out that will end the lives of thousands throughout the galaxy. At fourteen, Ken loses his parents in the brutal attack on the Eagle’s Paradise space cruise ship by the Lermen. His world is torn to pieces. After their deaths, Ken is left in the care of his grandparents and attempts to have a few normal years of high school. His life is good. He is a basketball star with wonderful friends and an amazing girlfriend, but his past continues to haunt him. After completing high school, he cannot let go of his quest for revenge and joins the war effort. Will the war provide the closure Ken seeks, or will he submit to the overwhelming sense of revenge and lose himself in the process?

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

Author : Paul Scharre
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608999
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War written by Paul Scharre and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.

The Great War of Our Time

Author : Michael Morell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1455585688
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Great War of Our Time written by Michael Morell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White House Situation Room advising President Obama on 5/1/11 when America struck back-killing Usama bin Ladin. From the subway bombings in London to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Morell always seemed to find himself on the cusp of history. A superb intelligence analyst and briefer, Morell now presents The Great War of Our Time, where he uses his talents to offer an unblinking and insightful assessment of CIA's counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty years and, perhaps most important, shows readers that the threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Ladin in Abbottabad. Morell illuminates new, growing threats from terrorist groups that, if unaddressed, could leave the country vulnerable to attacks that would dwarf 9/11 in magnitude. He writes of secret, back-channel negotiations he conducted with foreign spymasters and regime leaders in a desperate attempt to secure a peaceful outcome to unrest launched during the "Arab Spring." Morell describes how efforts to throw off the shackles of oppression have too often resulted in broken nation states unable or unwilling to join the fight against terrorism. Along the way Morell provides intimate portraits of the leadership styles of figures ranging from Presidents Bush and Obama, CIA directors Tenet, Goss, Hayden, Petraeus, Panetta, and Brennan, and a host of others.

War Department Technical Manual

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book War Department Technical Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music in World War II

Author : Pamela M. Potter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253052505
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Music in World War II written by Pamela M. Potter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays examining the roles played by music in American and European society during the Second World War. Global conflicts of the twentieth century fundamentally transformed not only national boundaries, power relations, and global economies, but also the arts and culture of every nation involved. An important, unacknowledged aspect of these conflicts is that they have unique musical soundtracks. Music in World War II explores how music and sound took on radically different dimensions in the United States and Europe before, during, and after World War II. Additionally, the collection examines the impact of radio and film as the disseminators of the war’s musical soundtrack. Contributors contend that the European and American soundtrack of World War II was largely one of escapism rather than the lofty, solemn, heroic, and celebratory mode of “war music” in the past. Furthermore, they explore the variety of experiences of populations forced from their homes and interned in civilian and POW camps in Europe and the United States, examining how music in these environments played a crucial role in maintaining ties to an idealized “home” and constructing politicized notions of national and ethnic identity. This fascinating, well-constructed volume of essays builds understanding of the role and importance of music during periods of conflict and highlights the unique aspects of music during World War II. “A collection that offers deeply informed, interdisciplinary, and original views on a myriad of musical practices in Europe, Great Britain, and the United States during the period.” —Gayle Magee, co-editor of Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I

The Secret War Against Sweden

Author : Ola Tunander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135763305
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Secret War Against Sweden written by Ola Tunander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ola Tunander's revelations make it clear that the United States and Britain ran a "secret war" in Swedish waters.

Serendipity Green

Author : Rob Levandoski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504011961
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Serendipity Green written by Rob Levandoski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuttwyler, Ohio, is the perfect Midwestern town. Beautiful square. Gazebo dripping with gingerbread. Leafy streets lined with big white houses. Even the town’s annual summer festival is perfect. It commemorates the unfortunate clubbing death of the Indian princess Podewedka, by the town’s founding fathers, John and Amos Tuttwyler, back in 1803. The only thing that’s not perfect is Howie Dornick’s house. It’s right on the parade route and it hasn’t been painted in years. But that’s going to change, now that D. William Aitchbone is chairman of the Squaw Days Committee. You can bet on that! But Bill Aitchbone has to tread carefully. Howie, after all, is the illegitimate son of local war hero Artie Brown. Howie finally does paint his house. But not white like all the others. He paints it the most obnoxious shade of green imaginable. Howie’s really in hot water now. Then Hugh Harbinger sees Howie’s green house. Hugh was once New York City’s most famous color designer. Before going off the deep end, he created 300 different shades of black! He’s determined to make a comeback. Determined to make “Serendipity Green” the most popular color ever. Serendipity Green not only lampoons America’s small town festivals, it lowers the boom on big city trendiness as well. It is irreverent and iconoclastic and simply irresistible.

Film Style and the World War II Combat Genre

Author : Stuart Bender
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443865494
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Film Style and the World War II Combat Genre written by Stuart Bender and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Style and the World War II Combat Genre is a detailed examination of the stylistic means by which filmmakers depict stories of combat. The work furthers contemporary discussions by analyzing a range of World War II combat films to a degree of detail which has previously escaped critical attention. This substantial examination of cinematography, sound, editing and acting in a range of movies including Saving Private Ryan, Windtalkers, Bataan, and Objective Burma! demonstrates the importance of close attention to the textual construction of these films specifically, as well as cinematic texts more generally. The work advances the original analytic descriptions of “controlled spontaneity” and “reported realism” as theoretical concepts which explain why viewers regard certain stylistic techniques as realistic. This notion of realism is then further understood through reference to a body of research in cognitive psychology to argue that the density of audio-visual information in contemporary combat films is a significant factor in creating a sense of realism.

Vor: The Playback War

Author : Lisa Smedman
Publisher : Aspect
ISBN 13 : 9780759522152
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Vor: The Playback War written by Lisa Smedman and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second book of a six-part series tying in with VOR, the new adventure game from FASA, the war-ridden Earth is suddenly sucked out of its solar system by a bizarre and powerful vortex. Now a trapped world in another universe, Earth faces an even greater cataclysmic event that threatens to warp together the past, present, and future and plunge Earth into eternal chaos.

Proceedings of the ... National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States

Author : Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States written by Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some early issues include the Proceedings of the ... annual encampment of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.

Yankee Ingenuity in the War

Author : Frank Parker Stockbridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yankee Ingenuity in the War written by Frank Parker Stockbridge and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Times History of the War

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Times History of the War written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Role of Defamation in the Outbreak of War

Author : Andrzej Jarczewski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527590933
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Defamation in the Outbreak of War written by Andrzej Jarczewski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows that the beginnings of the wars in 1939 and 2022—apart from political goals—had an event basis. Hitler liked to perform at the opera and therefore did not allow the destroyed Reichstag to be renovated for many years. Putin, in turn, prepared a victory parade in Kiev and ordered multi-meter banquet tables in Moscow. Hitler received solid military training and was initially very successful. Putin also wanted success, but he is only an officer of the secret political police, does not know the military and suffers defeat after defeat. Both Hitler and Putin used the available media and associated weapons of defamation: to insult and dehumanize the victim, and to accuse the opponent of the crimes they procured. This was intended to stop the West from helping. Hitler succeeded, but Putin did not. History repeated itself, but, as always, inaccurately. The book includes a translation of the full versions of the key propaganda texts that justify both wars. It is intended primarily for professional historians dealing with the beginning of World War II and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The World War II Novels

Author : Sloan Wilson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150404861X
Total Pages : 1019 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The World War II Novels written by Sloan Wilson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three novels of life at sea during World War II from the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Summer Place. Drawing on his own experiences as a US Coast Guard officer, Sloan Wilson sheds a unique light on World War II in these three unforgettable novels. Voyage to Somewhere: Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he’s being sent right back out, this time as captain of a supply ship sailing from California to New Guinea and stopping at every small island in between. Despite being homesick for his wife, he has no choice but to accept the assignment and a cargo of pineapples destined for Hawaii. When Barton isn’t battling gale-force winds and monstrous waves, he’s coping with seasick sailors and budding rivalries that threaten to turn mutinous. Hanging over the ship like a storm cloud is the knowledge that the world is at war and the enemy is never far away. “One of the few honest and straightforward sea books that have come out of the war” (New York Herald Tribune). Pacific Interlude: Twenty-five-year-old Coast Guard lieutenant Sylvester Grant, a veteran of the Greenland Patrol, has just been given command of a small gas tanker carrying extremely flammable cargo across dangerous stretches of the Pacific Ocean. As the Allies prepare to retake the Philippines, Grant and his crew must bring two hundred thousand gallons of high-octane aviation fuel to shore. From below-deck personality clashes to the terrifying possibility of an enemy attack, from combating illness and boredom to the constant stress of preventing a deadly explosion, the crew of Y-18 must learn to work together and trust their captain—otherwise, they might never make it home. “Powerful, passionate and authentic . . . Unforgettable” (James Dickey, author of Deliverance). Ice Brothers: After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Paul Schuman, a college senior and summer sailor, enlists in the Coast Guard and is assigned to be the executive officer aboard the Arluk, a converted fishing trawler patrolling the coast of Greenland for secret German weather bases. Led by Lt. Cdr. “Mad” Mowry, the finest ice pilot and meanest drunk in the Coast Guard, Schuman and communications officer Nathan Greenberg battle deadly icebergs, dangerous blizzards, and menacing Nazi gunboats. Surviving the war will require every ounce of courage and intelligence they possess—and that’s before Mowry breaks, forcing the young officers to take command at the worst possible moment. “The best since The Caine Mutiny” (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Eye of War

Author : Antoine Bousquet
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145295805X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Eye of War written by Antoine Bousquet and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present From ubiquitous surveillance to drone strikes that put “warheads onto foreheads,” we live in a world of globalized, individualized targeting. The perils are great. In The Eye of War, Antoine Bousquet provides both a sweeping historical overview of military perception technologies and a disquieting lens on a world that is, increasingly, one in which anything or anyone that can be perceived can be destroyed—in which to see is to destroy. Arguing that modern-day global targeting is dissolving the conventionally bounded spaces of armed conflict, Bousquet shows that over several centuries, a logistical order of militarized perception has come into ascendancy, bringing perception and annihilation into ever-closer alignment. The efforts deployed to evade this deadly visibility have correspondingly intensified, yielding practices of radical concealment that presage a wholesale disappearance of the customary space of the battlefield. Beginning with the Renaissance’s fateful discovery of linear perspective, The Eye of War discloses the entanglement of the sciences and techniques of perception, representation, and localization in the modern era amid the perpetual quest for military superiority. In a survey that ranges from the telescope, aerial photograph, and gridded map to radar, digital imaging, and the geographic information system, Bousquet shows how successive technological systems have profoundly shaped the history of warfare and the experience of soldiering. A work of grand historical sweep and remarkable analytical power, The Eye of War explores the implications of militarized perception for the character of war in the twenty-first century and the place of human subjects within its increasingly technical armature.

British Interrogation Techniques in the Second World War

Author : Sophie Jackson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752478273
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book British Interrogation Techniques in the Second World War written by Sophie Jackson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British system of interrogation has always been distinctly different from other countries. Subtler, quieter and far more devious than its contemporaries, it has been admired by those who have inadvertently succumbed to it. So much so that the Nazis adopted some of the British methods in their own intelligence operations. During the Second World War the system became highly developed and vast numbers of people were employed in the collating and recovery of information. Vital data regarding military advances such as the Enigma machine and the Tiger Tank were wrung from prisoners not by force but by trickery and deceit. The eccentric, quirky, but also very successful, wartime interrogation methods of the British are revealed in this book, including their triumphant discoveries and also their occasional disastrous mistake.