H. V. Kaltenborn (1878–1965)
Auteur van Fifty fabulous years, 1900-1950: A Personal Review
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I broadcast the crisis 2 exemplaren
It seems like yesterday 2 exemplaren
Kaltenborn edits the news; Europe--Asia--America 2 exemplaren
Kaltenborn Edits the War News 1 exemplaar
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This book is a compilation of some of those questions, with Kaltenborn's answers. What most fascinating about the book is that it was published in 1942. We have a tendency now to look back on the events of the war as if they were written in stone, but looking at the questions people had in 1942, and Kaltenborn's answers, show us how uncertain everything was and how many of decisions made by the Allies were far from inevitable.
Many of the questions concern things like the timing of the opening of a second front in Europe, which Kaltenborn believed would happen much sooner than it did. Kaltenborn also gives assurances that Russia will soon begin helping in the war against Japan, at least to the extent of allowing American bombers access to airfields on Soviet soil, a development which never occurred and which might have really changed the war in the Pacific.
Those misconceptions aside (or maybe even, in part, because of them), Kaltenborn here provides a great amount of fascinating insight about what was going on in 1942 and what Americans' concerns and questions were about those events.… (meer)