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Book Shelf - Radio History: General Radio History


This is the British Forces NetworkThis is the British Forces Network

By: Alan Grace
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd
First published: 1996
Out of print

The story of Forces Broadcasting in Germany


On the Shortwaves, 1923-1945On the Shortwaves, 1923-1945

By: Jerome S. Berg
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
First published: 1999
In print

Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of Radio


Broadcasting On the Shortwaves, 1945 to TodayBroadcasting On the Shortwaves, 1945 to Today

By: Jerome S. Berg
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
First published: 2008
In print

This book picks up the story started in On the Shortwaves after World War II, focusing on the stations themselves and the environment in which they operated


Listening On the Shortwaves, 1945 to TodayListening On the Shortwaves, 1945 to Today

By: Jerome S. Berg
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
First published: 2008
In print

This book picks up the story started in On the Shortwaves in 1945, describing the resumption of organized shortwave listening after the war and its development in the years since.

McFarland & Company, IncMcFarland & Company, Inc

McFarland & Company publish a wide range of books about radio and television history, a small selection of which are listed on this page. For the full range visit www.mcfarlandpub.com.

War of the Black Heavens

War of the Black HeavensWar of the Black Heavens

By: Michael Nelson
Publisher: Syracuse University Press / Brassey's (UK) Ltd
First published: 1997
Out of print

Western radio - principally, the BBC, Radio Free, Radio Liberty and the Voice of America - was an unrivalled force in the fight against Communism and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Based on first-hand interviews and documents from the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party

History of International BroadcastingHistory of International Broadcasting

By: James Wood
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
First published: 1992
In print
ISBN: 0863413021

The origin and growth of information broadcasting (chiefly of propaganda) by radio - most renowned for its prominence in World War II and the Cold War.

History of International Broadcasting - Vol. 2History of International Broadcasting - Vol. 2

By: James Wood
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
First published: 1999
In print
ISBN: 0852969201

Documents the role of the West's international broadcasters, such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the BBC World Service, in using propaganda and other information to assist in bringing about the collapse of Soviet communism.

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