{"product_id":"the-first-casualty-the-war-correspondent-as-hero-and-mythmaker-from-the-crimea-to-kosovo","title":"The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The most comprehensive jaccuse of journalism as propaganda in the English language... Ought to be read by every young reporter and by those who retain pride in our craft of truth-telling  not matter how unpopular or unpalatable the truth.\" -- John Pilger  from the Preface to the new edition \"The first casualty when war comes  is truth \" said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917  and 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 Times London  to the ranks of reporters  photographers  and cameramen who captured the realities of war in Vietnam  The First Casualty tells a fascinating 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 correspondents role as a seeker of truth is now in jeopardy. From reviews of the first edition: \"This book may make us all a little more free to talk about and find the truth.\" -- Garry Wills  New York Times Book Review \"Disturbing  even dismaying  yet also in its painful way  enormously entertaining.\" -- New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983678730293,"sku":"ByrdShop_080186951X","price":92.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801869518.jpg?v=1770805841","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-first-casualty-the-war-correspondent-as-hero-and-mythmaker-from-the-crimea-to-kosovo","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}