Dispatches from the front : Matthew Halton, Canada's voice at war
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- ISBN: 9780771038136
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344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2014.
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General Note: | CatMonthString:october.15 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- I. Shithouse Halton's son -- 2. Starting out -- 3. To Europe -- 4. A star rising -- 5. Return to Europe -- 6. The German series: sounding the alarm -- 7. Royal interludes -- 8. Twilight of peace -- 9. To the abyss -- 10. To war -- 11. A short time in exile -- 12. The desert war -- 13. The road to Ortona -- 14. D-day -- 15. Four days in Paris -- 16. To Berlin -- 17. Post-war -- 18. Decline -- Postscript -- Author's note -- Illustration credits -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
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A biography of Canadian foreign and war correspondent, Matthew Halton, written by his son, David Halton, drawn from archival research and interviews. - Random House, Inc.
As senior war correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the Second World War, Matthew Halton reported from the front lines in Italy and Northwest Europe and became âthe voice of Canada at war.â His gripping, passionate broadcasts chronicled the victories and losses of Canadian soldiers and made him a national hero.
Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, in 1904, Halton was to achieve the fastest ever ascent in Canadian journalism. A year after joining theToronto Daily Star as a cub reporter, he was in Berlin to write about Adolf Hitlerâs seizure of power and â long before most other correspondents â to begin a prophetic series of warnings about the Nazi regime. For more than two decades, he witnessed first-hand the major political and military events of the era. He covered Europeâs drift to disaster, including the breakdown of the League of Nations, the Spanish Civil War, the sellout to Fascism at Munich, and the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia. Along the way he interviewed Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hermann Göring, Neville Chamberlain, Charles de Gaulle, Mahatma Gandhi, and dozens of others who shaped the history of the century.
In Dispatches from the Front, acclaimed former CBC correspondent David Halton, Matthewâs son, also examines his fatherâs often tumultuous personal life. He unravels the many paradoxes of his personÂality: the war correspondent who loathed bloodshed yet became addicted to the thrill of battle; the loner who thrived in good company; and, in some ways most puzzling of all, the womanizer with a deep and enduring love for his wife.
Drawn from extensive interviews and archival research, this definitive biography is a captivating portrait of the life of one of Canadaâs most accomÂplished journalists.