When the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy in 1944, BBC correspondents, along with their colleagues from around the world, took their microphones to the front line of battle for the first time. Among them was Frank Gillard , who tells Barry Cunliffe how the information war was fought. And Annette Kobak recalls
William Howard Russell , whose controversial dispatches from the Crimean War led to the downfall of a government.
Producer John Knight