Full Description
"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917, and in his history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in "The Times", to the ranks of reporters, photographers, and cameramen who captured the realities of war in Vietnam, the book tells a story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression, myth-making and propaganda. Since Vietnam, Knightley finds, governments have become much more adept at managing the media, and in new chapters on the Falklands, the Gulf War and the former Yugoslavia, he concludes that the war correspondent's role as a seeker of truth is now in jeopardy.
Contents
"The Miserable Parent of a Luckless Tribe" 1854-1856; The First Challenge 1861-1865; The Golden Age 1865-1914; Quite Another Game 1899-1902; The Last War 1914-1918; Enter America 1917-1918; The Remedy of Bolshevism is Bullets 1917-1919; The Real Scoop 1935-1936; Commitment in Spain 1936-1939; "Their Finest Hour" 1939-1941; The Struggle for Mother Russia 1941-1945; Remember Pearl Harbor 1937-1945; Never Again 1940-1945; Korea, the united Nations' War 1950-1953; Algeria is French 1954-1962; Vietnam 1954-1975; War is Fun 1954-1975; Britannia Rules the News 1975-1989; The Deadly Video Game 1990-1991; The Military's Final Victory March-June, 1999.
