War Report
From D-Day to Berlin
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
30 May 2019
Summary
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 int…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849907774 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849907773 |
| Author: | Desmond Hawkins, John Simpson |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | BBC Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 343g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 126mm x 198mm |
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Desmond Hawkins
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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