War report : BBC dispatches from the front line, 1944-1945
2014
Book
'War Report', the landmark BBC radio program, first broadcast after the nine o-clock news on D-Day, 6 June 1944, provided an almost-daily chronicle to millions of listeners of the final year of World War II. A team BBC reporters, including Chester Wilmot, Frank Gillard, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, and Richard Dimbleby, trained and were embedded with British troops, 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'. 70 years after the invasion of Normandy, the dispatches of 'War Report' collected here provide a unique and visceral account of Allied efforts to liberate Europe and end the war.
Author:
Edition:
Revised edition. / compiled and edited by Desmond Hawkins ; with additional material by Mark Jones.
Imprint:
[London] : BBC Books, 2014.
Collation:
512 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Previous edition: 1994.Includes index.
ISBN:
9781849907767 (hbk)1849907765 (hbk)9781448142361 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
940.5341 HAW940.5341
LC class:
D799.G7
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
260991