World at War Podcast

Episode:39 Anna Louis Strong was a twentieth - century American journalist and activist , best know for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union. Wild River is her story of the construction of the Dnieper Dam the largest hydroelectric power station in the Ukraine and was the largest in Europe at the time of it's construction.

Episode 38: Jack Belden was born February 3, 1910 in Brooklyn, New York and died in Paris on June 3, 1989. Jack was an American war correspondent who covered the Japanese invasion of China during the second World War and of the Chinese Revolution. Belden spoke Chinese well and often traveled to the front lines to cover events from the point of the soldiers and the villagers.

Episode 37: Vicki Baum was born in Vienna into a Jewish family, Baum began writing in her teens. She is most famous for her 1929 novel , which was made into a Academy Award winning film, Grand Hotel. Weeping Wood is a novel about the lives affected by the wants and needs of rubber during World War II. Vicki Baum died of leukemia in Hollywood , California in 1960 .  

Episode 36 : When he and his wife  through art protested the militaristic government in Japan, they were sent to prison. New Sun is an re-enactment of the arrest and torture of Taro Yashima and his wife,by the Tokoka the Japanese Secret Police. You can email me at worldatwarpodcast@gmail.com  .

Episode 35: The son of Arthur and Gertrude Watt, Frederick B. Watt was a correspondent for many newspapers and magazines,notably the Edmonton Journal. Watt was also a naval intelligence officer in World War II, earning the rank of Lieutenant Commander. This show is based on a poem he wrote " Who Dare to Live "

Episode 34: A first hand account of how American and Fillipino prisoners where treated by the Japanese at the Prisoner of War Camp in Davao , Philippines.

Episode 33 : This week's show is some comedy relief from the normal stories from this time period.

Episode 32 : In the book, Vercors tells of how an old man and his niece show resistance against the German officer, who is occupying their house.The German officer is disillusioned when he realizes the real goal of the German Army is not to build, but to ruin and to exploit. He then chooses to leave France to fight on the Eastern Front.

Episode 31 : This story concerns Italian-American US Army Major Joppolo, who was placed in charge of the town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily.Major Joppolo's attempts to replace the 700 year old bell that was taken by the Fascist ,wins the trust and love of the people.

Episode 30 : A story of action in the Pacific aboard a U.S destroyer, writtien by Frederick .J. Bell.   The song you hear is called To Victory! by DJ Topshelf .