Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Att..., Charles Osgood
Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Att..., Charles Osgood
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Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack
A Boyhood Year During WWII

Author: Charles Osgood

Narrator: Charles Osgood

Unabridged: 2 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

The year is 1942. Charles Osgood is a nine-year-old living in Baltimore. His idols are Franklin Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, a hometown hero. Charlie spends his days delivering newspapers on his daily route, riding the trolley to the local amusement park, going to Orioles' baseball games, and playing with his younger sister, Mary Ann. With great attention to detail, Osgood captures the texture of life in a very different era, before anyone had heard of penicillin or the atomic bomb. In his neighborhood of Liberty Heights, gas lights glowed on every corner, milkmen delivered bottles of milk, and a loaf of bread cost nine cents. Although Osgood had many interests as a child, what captivated him more than anything else was the radio. He would listen huddled under the covers, after his parents had turned off the lights, to Spiderman, Superman, The Lone Ranger, the Shadow - and of course baseball.

About Charles Osgood

Charles Osgood, who has been dubbed CBS News' "poet in residence," writes and anchors The Osgood File four times daily over the CBS Radio Network, and anchors CBS News Sunday Morning. He is the winner of three Emmys and three Peabody Awards. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Jean. They have five children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on June 28, 2021

“Defending Baltimore” is a phrase that one might more typically associate with the War of 1812, with Fort McHenry and Francis Scott Key and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” In the case of Charles Osgood’s Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack, however, the historical context is not the War of 1812 but......more

Goodreads review by Sand on January 03, 2014

I don't know how someone from another generation would feel about this but I'm old enough to have found every word a pure delight. It evokes WWII Baltimore so wonderfully well that I was carried back in a time machine into a sea of smiles. A view of the times through the eyes of a young boy and the......more

Goodreads review by Chris on February 11, 2015

This was a cute story about an ideal childhood with a family almost as perfect as Beaver Cleaver's. Not having lived with such a family it was difficult to relate. I don't believe this should be called a book. It qualifies as a short story or magazine article that can be read in one sitting.......more