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A full list of this genre is shown below.Catalogue number, Track number
Track
Title
Artist(s)
WAR AND PEACE IN EUROPE: The great war - Ex-private W. Quinton describes an early gas attack on the Western Front
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Hitler - the man - General Bor-Komorowsky, C. B. Fry, and Herr von Hinkel recall the differing impressions made on each of them the first time they saw Hitler
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Interviewer - Dr. Stephen Black
A Jew in Germany - Else Rosenfeld recalls some of her experiences in Germany during '30s
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
The Rhineland - Freddy Grisewood announces that German troops entered the Rhineland (7.3.36)
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Appeasement - a 'Times' editorial reflects contemporary feeling about the Czech-German dispute
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Chamberlain's return from Munich - The Prime Minister justifies his action over Czechoslovakia
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
The King's Speech - George VI warns the nation about the struggle which faces Britain (3.9.39)
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Lord Haw-Haw - William Joyce broadcasts an account of a 'murder' committed by British forces on unarmed Germans. (18.2.40) In fact, a party from HMS Copssack had boarded the German prison ship Altmark and rescued British prisoners. During the boarding, one German fell overboard and was rescued by British officers
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
The progress of the war; broadcasters - Bernard Stubbs (31.5.40); Battle of Britain - Alvar Liddell (15.9.40); El Alamein - Godfrey Talbot (2.11.42); Naples - Frank Gillard (1.10.43); Moscow - Reginald Watson-Jones (8.11.43); D-Day - Alan Melville (6.6.44); resistance instructions - SHAEF (3.9.44); the Rhine - Wynford Vaughan Thomas(31.3.45); Dortmund - a British military officer (13.4.45)
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
The Resistance Movement - Col. Berthaud, a member of the French Resistance, recalls both a funny and a dangerous moment during his five years in the Underground
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Belsen Concentration Camp - Richard Dimbleby tells what he saw when the Allies entered Belsen
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Displaced persons - Three 'Displaced Persons' from the British Zone of Germany describe their backgrounds, their feelings, and their lives
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
German re-entry into European affairs - A. P. Ryan summarises the conflicting attitudes which underlay the Western powers' decision to set up the federal German government
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Common Market versus Commonwealth - Hugh Gaitskell, Leader of the Opposition puts the case for retaining our ties with the Commonwealth (21.9.62). Similar arguments were advanced during the 1970-71 negotiations for entry
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
THE SUPER-POWERS - RUSSIA: Revolution in Petrograd - Phillips Price, M. P., remembers how it all began
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Lenin - the man - Roman Sagovsky, then an army cadet, recalls Lenin speaking in 1917
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Red Army speech - Lenin encourages his followers in a speech made during the civil way (1919)
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Stalin - the man - K. P. S. Menon recalls Stalin at the height of his power
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Interviewer - Mark Tully
Treason trials - A Radio Moscow broadcast reports the result of one such trial in 1936
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Stalingrad, 1943 - Paul Winterton describes conditions in this much fought-over city
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Life in a labour camp - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winner, based this description in 'one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich' on his own experience. He had spent eight years in a labour camp for making an unflattering comment about Stalin in a private letter
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Khrushchev - by Denis Healey, M. P., Michael Glenny, Sir Willian Hayter, and John Cronin, M. P.
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Modern Russia - Denis Blakeley explains how (even after the imprisonment under Khrushchev) Russian living standards cannot be compared with those in the West
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Interviewer - Chris Cvlic
The Hungarian Revolution - Russell Taylor and George Cooper describe their early experiences among the Freedom Fighters of Budapest
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Interviewer - George Urban
The Berlin Wall - Brian Horton and Ronald Robson broadcast despatches (12-13.8.61)
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
An appeal for help - A Czech girl broadcasts a plea for support as the Russians enter Prague
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
THE SUPER-POWERS - AMERICA: US Opinion, 1939 - Raymond Gram Swing explains the mixed reaction to the outbreak of World War II
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Nagasaki, 1945 - Leonard Cheshire VC describes the fearful effect of an atomic bomb explosion
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Berlin airlift - Richard Sharp reports on the success of the airlift, and Gatow Control 'talks down' a pilot flying supplies into the Western Zone (3.7.48)
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Korean P. O. W. - Derek Kinne, VC, who escaped from a Korean prisoner-of-war camp, talks about his experiences
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Interviewer - Arthur Appletomn
Vietnam-US attitudes - G. I.'s discuss the war with John Morgan; US students condemn it (1965)
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Vietnam-Asian attitudes - Patrick Gordon Walker, M. P. sums up (1965)
History 1917-1971 - War and peace in Europe
Interviewer - Dr. Norman Hunt
Results
Items total 41.
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