What they're saying about We Felt the Flames: Through the spring and summer of 1940, Americans with a sense of history watched in horror as the Wehrmacht marched into Paris and the Lufwaffe very nearly won the Battle of Britain. Other Americans print and radio journalists stationed in Berlin, Paris, and London did their best to keep their countrymen informed and to warn them of America's nearly certain involvement in the war. The journalists were an unusually giftedand eloquent lot. Telling who they were and how they ...
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What they're saying about We Felt the Flames: Through the spring and summer of 1940, Americans with a sense of history watched in horror as the Wehrmacht marched into Paris and the Lufwaffe very nearly won the Battle of Britain. Other Americans print and radio journalists stationed in Berlin, Paris, and London did their best to keep their countrymen informed and to warn them of America's nearly certain involvement in the war. The journalists were an unusually giftedand eloquent lot. Telling who they were and how they covered that fateful year, Charles Kupfer reveals himself as an unusually gifted and eloquent historian. Allen Guttmann, Professor of American Studies, Amherst College Charles Kupfer has produced a highly readable, soundly researched account of the summer of 1940, when American public opinion shifted from near-isolationism to near-consensus on the need to support the people of Great Britain struggling under the full force of Hitler's blitzkrieg. Key to the crucial shift in US attributes was radio, especially the broadcasts from England of Edward R. Murrow and his colleagues, which gave a human face to the eloquence of Winston Churchill. Excerpts from broadcasts, and reactions on this side of the Atlantic, are skillfully presented here. No student of public opinion, no citizen concerned with US foreign policy, should fail to read this book. Kupfer's vivid prose keeps the drama high; his readers will sense that they, too, have 'felt the flames' of that fateful summer. Walt Whitman Rostow, Rex G. Baker Professor Emeritus, University of Texas; former National Security Advisor to the President A hauntingly evocative analysis of the media voices who shaped andcrystallized America's difficult decision to aid Britain in 1940. Kupfer's book is a gripping, carefully researched new look at the pivotal sea change in American opinion. George Jaeger, former Deputy Assistant Secretary General of NATO; former diplomat-in-residence, Middlebury College Professor Kupfer recaptures an episode of American journalism which has never been surpassed. The subject matter those knife-edge years when Hitler's aggression overran France but turned back from conquering Britain; the medium print journalism, newsreels, and above all, radio; the heroes William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Fred Bate, Ed Murrow, and others. Kupfer's account both recounts and emulates their achievement. They were passionately committed to freedom and democracy and believed above all that reporting must be accurate and honest. They did not know the final outcome, nor what the next day would bring, and Kupfer recaptures the excitement. Young journalists should gain inspiration from this vivid reconstruction of the brilliance of their profession, however much television has changed its techniques. We should all be reminded of how much we owe to the creators of this 'American story, ' which shaped the popular will in America and Britain, which underpinned the military victory of freedom. Wilfrid Knapp, Emeritus Fellow, St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford Charles Kupfer succeeds in recapturing the feelings of peril and near-panic that seized the American people during the momentous summer of 1940. His description of the way they learned of the fall of France and Battle of Britain is both informative and dramatic. He has written a very important account of a memorable moment in20th Century history. Robert A. Divine, George W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus, University of Texas, Winner of the 2000 Graebner Award, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Charles Kupfer's book provides and important and fascinating account of American broadcasters and reporters in Europe, framing American opinion in the darkest hours of World War II. This book is a real eye-opener in revealing how profoundly influential the American media was in establishing sympathy for the Allied cause. After reading Kupfer's gripping account of the contribution of
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