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080 _a70 .4 K5f 1975
082 _a070.40922
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100 _aKnightley, Phillip.
245 4 _aThe first casualty
_h[[Book] :]
_bfrom the Crimea to Vietnam : the war correspondent as hero, propagandist, and myth maker /
_cPhillip Knightley.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarcourt Brace Jovanovich,
_c1976.
300 _a465 p., [8] leaves of plates :
_bill. ;
_c21 cm.
490 0 _aA Harvest book ; HB 343.
504 _aBibliography: p. [443]-445.
520 3 _aThe 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.
521 _aAll age.
650 0 _aWar correspondents.
650 6 _aCorrespondantes de guerre.
650 0 4 _aWar correspondents.
650 0 4 _aJournalists.
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