The First Casualty : From the Crimea to Vietnam: the War Correspondent - $4 - (Milton, FL)

Excellent book by Phillip Knightley titled THE FIRST CASUALTY: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Corespondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker. This 465 page HARDBACK was published in 1976. FROM THE BACK COVER OF THE PAPERBACK WE READ, "Philip Knightley's stunning chronicles of war correspondents was the Overseas Press Club award as the best book on foreign affairs for 1975, and it was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Measuring his facts against Hiram Johnson's statement to the United States Senate in 1917 that 'the first casualty when war comes is truth.' Knightley rigorously explores the evolution of war correspondents since William Howard Russell of the London Times went to the Crimea in 1854. 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."Great book with 16 pages of photos. Book is in very good condition. Clean white pages with no markings. LIGHT WEAR ON DJ Shipping and handling 3.75 Media Mail to US destinations. Canadian residents 19.35 First Class mail. All others welcome but extra postage required and shipped entirely at your risk.

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