''This is a helluva way to get a story.'
'In December 1943, five brave correspondents join a British bombers air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News Service; and Norwegian journalist and activist, Nordahl Grieg. Each is assigned to one of the 400 Lancaster bombers that fly into the hazardous skies over Germany over a single night. Of the five, only two land back at base to file their stories.
'In Germany, after parachuting out of his doomed aircraft, reporter Lowell Bennett is taken prisoner alongside other surviving airmen. From there he is taken on a remarkable tour of bombed-out German cities, with his captors hoping for a journalist to see first-hand the devastation of war for everyday Germans.
'In Dispatch from Berlin, 1943, Australian historian Anthony Cooper and German researcher Thorsten Perl uncover a remarkable true story of life on both sides of the war.' (Publication summary)
'Bomber Command operations cost about 3,500 Australian lives in World War II. This was more than five times the number of Australians who died in the Battle of Kokoda from July to November 1942. Yet the strategic bombing offensive over Germany has never held a comparable place in the national memory of war.' (Introduction)
'Bomber Command operations cost about 3,500 Australian lives in World War II. This was more than five times the number of Australians who died in the Battle of Kokoda from July to November 1942. Yet the strategic bombing offensive over Germany has never held a comparable place in the national memory of war.' (Introduction)
