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The first casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam : the war correspondent as hero, propagandist, and myth maker
The first casualty From the Crimea to Vietnam the war correspondent as hero propagandist and myth maker
Author: Phillip Knightley
The war correspondent is comparatively new to history. Generals preferred to report their own victories and resented a civilian snooping around the battlefield, as William Howard Russell of The Times of London quickly discovered in the Crimea. But the hunger for news in the American Civil War changed that, and soon the correspondent - gold in on...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780151312641
ISBN-10: 0151312648
Publication Date: 1975
Pages: 465
Edition: 1st ed
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Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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