Taken from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this is a collection of audiobooks that tell the real story of WWII in sound. Programme 1 covers September 1939 - June 1941 and includes the outbreak of war - Dunkirk - Battle of Britain - the Blitz - sinking of the Bismark - Battle of Crete - Hitler invades Russia. Programme 2 covers July 1941 - July 1943 and includes the Battle of the Atlantic - North Africa in Allied hands - American bombers first raids over Germany - invasion...
This programme focuses on the largest sea-borne invasion in modern history and one of the world's most tightly kept secrets. It brings together despatches from the BBC War Correspondents who brought up-to-the-minute, graphic descriptions of the events to the listening public. This is a unique collection, a chance to hear history in the making: the day and the hour of D-Day June 1944.