War Report

From D-Day to Berlin

Desmond Hawkins, John Simpson

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English

BBC Books
30 May 2019

Radio; European history; British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War

A classic chronicle to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the final year of World War II as told through the BBC War Report dispatches.

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.

Foreword by: John Simpson
Edited by: Desmond Hawkins
Imprint: BBC Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 343g
ISBN: 9781849907774
ISBN 10: 1849907773
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 30 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Desmond Hawkins (1908-1999) was an author, editor, and radio personality, and a member of original War Report production team at the BBC. A passionate naturalist, he also started the BBC department that became the world-famous Natural History Unit. John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs editor. In a career spanning 50 years, he has reported on major world events from all corners of the globe, and was made a CBE in the Gulf War honours list in 1991. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs and an Emmy for his reporting.

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War Report

From D-Day to Berlin

Desmond Hawkins, John Simpson

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