The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq by Phillip Knightley

The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq

Phillip Knightley

608 pages first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
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"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the ...

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