Winner of the 2001 Book of the Year Award by Foreword Magazine for Pop Culture, The War of the Worlds has been revised and updated for this new paperback edition.
There was no television, no satellites and no information superhighway to spread the news when Hitler invaded Poland. There was radio. Murrow not only invented modern broadcast journalism from the streets of London, he recruited reporters that covered the war from capitals and battlefields. CD includes actual broadcasts.
Inspiring widespread fear and panic, one of the most well-known hoaxes in the world was the Mercury Theatre's presentation of WAR OF THE WORLDS, broadcast on October 30, 1938. THE COMPLETE WAR OF THE WORLDS contains Howard Koch's radioplay, the original H.G. Wells novel upon which it was based, and a number of essays, including several about ...
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