War Report - From D-Day to Berlin

This is WWII history, as it happened. All the horror and excitement of eleven months that changed the world.On D-Day (6 June 1944) a team of BBC reporters, trained and were embedded with British troops, achieved a first in war reporting: they landed side by side with soldiers, in gliders, by parachute, in assault-craft, talking into portable recording machines to 'tell it as it was'. For eleven months reporters such as Richard Dimbleby, Chester Wilmot and Frank Gillard were in the vanguard, filing over 1,500 dispatches covering the desperate exchanges on the D-Day beaches, the battle for Caen, the advance through Normandy, the liberation of Paris and, finally, the German surrender in 1945. 75 years after the invasion of Normandy, the dispatches of War Report collected here are as visceral and urgent as ever, and provide a remarkable account of Allied efforts to liberate Europe and end the war. With a foreword by John Simpson, War Report is a vital piece of modern history, direct from the front line.

Product details

• Authors: Anonymous, Desmond Hawkins, John Simpson
• Assisted by: Desmon Hawkins (Editor), Desmond Hawkins (Editor), Hawkins Desmond (Editor), John Simpson (Foreword)
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781849907774
• ISBN: 978-1-84990-777-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > 20th century (up to 1945); HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Radio / Podcasts, History: specific events and topics, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General