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The First Casualty The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq - Johns Hopkins Paperback Author: "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 appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times of London, to the ranks of reporters, p... more »
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