Knightley, Phillip.

The first casualty from the Crimea to Vietnam : the war correspondent as hero, propagandist, and myth maker / [[Book] :] Phillip Knightley. - 1st ed. - New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. - 465 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. - A Harvest book ; HB 343. .

Bibliography: p. [443]-445.

The author traces the part war reporting has played in creating some of the myths of history, explores the effects of censorship and manipulation of the press, and recounts the adventures of famous newspapermen - American, British, German, Japanese, Russian, French and Italian. The narrative teems with intriguing personalities, anecdotes, and revelations: Winston Churchill in the Boer War, Hemingway in the Spanish Civil War, Evelyn Waugh in the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Westbrook Pegler in the First World War, and Martha Gellhorn in the best-reported of all wars, Vietnam.

All age.

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War correspondents.
Correspondantes de guerre.
War correspondents.
Journalists.

PN4823 / .K5 1976

070.40922 070.40922

70 .4 K5f 1975

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