Derek Law Bibliography

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HAWKINS, Desmond. War Report: A Record of Dispatches Broadcast by the BBC's War Correspondents with the Allied Expeditionary Force 6 June 1944 - 5 May 1945. 452p., illus. London: Oxford University Press, 1946.

The reports were broadcast live from the front by a group of now legendary reporters. Transcripts of some two dozen reports are included with much background information and some relevant naval material. Reprinted in paperback by Ariel Books in 1985 (ISBN: 0563204214). A revised edition was published by BBC Books in 1994 (ISBN: 0563370998) with the new sub-title Radio Reports from the Western Front 1944-45. A revised and expanded edition was then published in 2014 by BBC Books (ISBN: 9781849907767), with an introduction by John Simpson and the new sub-title BBC Dispatches From the Front Line, 1944-45.