Xx-xx-xx16The War As We Know It

broadcasting company brings you the sound of war, the actual sound record of World War II, 2,191 days from the time Hitler's Panzer divisions moved across the Polish borders to the ceremony of the Japanese surrender aboard the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

World War II, the most terrible period of death and destruction in the long history of man. World War II, a drama preserved for all time through the medium of radio, and era never to be forgotten.

The most dramatic voices and sounds of the war. Unflicked in the history of man to have preserved for all time, the sound record of its terrible tragic moments.

It is an unequaled record, for the course of the war is easily heard in the voices and sounds of the men and women and children who lived and died. and in their voices and words are sadness, hope and eventual joy that was the transition from frustration and defeat to complete victory.

This then is the war as we know it, with the people many of whom have long since gone, who lived its terrible moments. It is September 29, 1938, the scene, the Führer's Palace, the Führer's House in Munich.

in the most historic international meeting since World War I, to save the peace of the world. Four men sit and talk over the fate of Czechoslovakia. The men, Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany, Yilduche Benito Mussolini of Italy, Premier Eduard de La Dier of France, and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain.

And what about Czechoslovakia? Proud, majestic Czechoslovakia. Their young men poised to defend the homeland against the Nazi oppression. Their leader is ready to sound the trumpet. Their populace ready to die on the land created for them by Great Britain and France after World War I.